Gildrick Domar, a noble-turned-writer, joins The Order seeking heroes worth writing about. Instead, he's thrust into the Frostwood—a dead forest teeming with monsters called Hallowbound. Under the command of the ever stoic Sergeant Cross, Squad S-22 fights to survive the march, the monsters, and the cold. Gildrick came searching for a story, now he has to surivive to tell it.