His soul getting plucked from the afterlife by a sorcerer's experiment, a man finds himself in an unfamiliar body, and an unfamiliar world. Some soldiers invading the wizard's stronghold find him, suspended in a tube, and he is brought before the King of Manea, who becomes intrigued by this strange man and takes him in. Under the assumed name Clossar ot-Vani, the stranger eventually becomes a part of the King's passion project, the Royal Treasure Hunters, with whom he will go on numerous adventures in this tale of sword & sorcery.