A young man signs his own death warrant when he joins an already failing militia. A teenage girl is haunted by her childhood abuses and begins to crave the very things she hates. A childless mother finds herself on the run as a convicted murderer. Yet, they are all unaware that their own fates are tied to a drowned orphan who has come back to life and will be the death of everyone he meets.Hælend's Ballad is a tale about what happens when men and women from two colliding cultures realize they may not be on the right side. Heroes are villains. The persecuted are oppressors. And when rumors begin to spread that the world is dying, the darkness of their own hearts betrays them.