A mysterious figure dressed in the livery of House Salic, referring to themself only as “The Raven”, has appeared outside the city gates of Acryn to challenge the city to a match of the old martial sport of gladitorial combat: six champions of Acryn against their six champions in a competion of honour. Winthrop Graves, a minor member of the city council, has put a call out for a party of adventurers to track down the Sons of Valor, a legendary gladitorial team that went their separate ways ten years ago, and to reunite them in time for the duel.

Samuel Skye - Iain
Richard Silver - Harry
New character - Dan
New character - Chaos

Things start out fairly straight forwardly. The party track down the teams old coach Peter “the Rhino” Peterson in the Anvil, a drinking establishment for old fighters. He tells them how to track down the Sons of Valor, who consist of:

• Hugo “the Hawk”, who has become a drunken wastrel after taking an injury to one of his eyes against the Caulish team ten years ago.
• Hank “Lightning”, who now runs a team for deprived youngsters in the slums.
• Mickey “Arrow”, who now lives a monastic lifestyle as a devotee of the Tender in the hills outside Acryn.
• Jake “Ace”, who set up a farm with his childhood sweetheart outside Acryn and hasn't been heard from since the Upheavel.
• Sam “the Shadow”, who now works for a gangster who goes by the moniker Big Sister.
• “Rebel”, who will find them when the time is right.

The party choose to go first for Hank, who they discover harbours guilt from being involved in match fixing ten years ago and blames himself for Hugo's injury. They persuade him that the match will be a chance to redeem himself.

The party track down a Tender priestess by the name of Sister Patience, who they are told has a sacred feather that might be able to heal Hugo's eye. Next they track down Hugo who is being hounded by debt collectors. Richard agrees to give up one of his own eyes in exchange for waiving the debt (which will apparently be returned if he can pay off the 150 Riel). They drop Hugo off at the Temple of the Tender to be sobered up.