The young Saquin warrior-brave, while attempting to make a desperate escape with the remaining survivors of his tribe to relatively safe Mexico, is ambushed by the bloodthirsty Captain Tobias Bruckner. In the ensuing battle, Tal'Set is badly wounded and bleeding to death from a bullet to his liver. His spilt blood causes an otherworldly reaction that is the first of a sequence of events that will send him to tumbling into a world the likes he never dreamed of - The Lost Land.