The forces of the Ayyubid Sultanate expand and the Crusader states shrink. But today, those gathered in Acre concern themselves with no political or religious divisions. For something worse stalks the Near East, a Yellow-Robed King who leaves a path of destruction everywhere he goes. He is beyond the reach of swords; they say. And those who knew him; and how he might be convinced to end his reign of destruction, have kept their unholy knowledge to themselves. Until now.