Following a cataclysmic event primitive humankind is annihilated. As the planet struggles to recover, a number of intelligent species emerge. The Arb)tian race, herbivorous and kindly creatures, thwart their carnivorous enemy, the Attosians, who vow retribution after being forced to flee to the cold and inhospitable mountains of the northern territory of the lands they inhabit.The Arb)tian society desires to live in peace but is forced into an epic war that could result in their extinction. Evil attempts to usurp their goodness and dominate and destroy the lands they inhabit. Their foe's evil nature is finally overcome by the intervention of a mysterious power. This compels them to accept the truth of their malevolent intent, but not before the pace of conflict has decimated both societies and death is replaced by peace.