On the wave-beaten shores of an unknown country, a young shipwrecked boy named Phale is taken in by the family of a castle steward. As he begins to understand the customs and laws of this strange, new land, Phale discovers a society that is in constant conflict with a race of malevolent, magical beings. At the epicentre of this ceaseless struggle, is a gateway between worlds: the very castle in which Phale now resides, and of which he may soon be fated to become the steward, or as the locals call it, the Locumten.