It is 1679 in a kind of equestrian world, somewhere. Townsfolk in the central countryside are bemused with the abrupt disappearance of the local tavern bard, a pegasus named Vylet Cypress. Her puzzling absence is soon followed by a string of murders, which strike terror across the lands. Cypress is swiftly identified as the perpetrator, and while many come to fear her, equally many come to worship her as a false god, invoking her only by the name, "Wolf"...