A kid with a cursed black sword and a revenge plot that actually has teeth, hunted by the four warriors everyone thinks are already dead. The pacing sprints past its own story to get to the next fight, which means you're either locked in or lost within two episodes. Dark comedy that lands between the brutality keeps it from drowning in itself.

A black sword cuts through legend and lies. Köinzell moves through the world carrying both the blade and the weight of terrible rumors, accused of atrocities he may or may not have committed. The whispers follow him: a young warrior whose weapon leaves only death in its wake. Twenty years earlier, the empire's greatest swordsman, Ascheriit, helped defeat the forces of Wischtech, only to be betrayed and killed by seven of his comrades. Those killers are now celebrated as the Seven Heroes, while his own name is disgraced. Returned as the half-elf Köinzell, he seeks revenge on them and wants their crimes brought to light, aided by new allies who also want justice. Four warriors known as the Traitorous Lances hunt him. These fighters once fell to the Seven Heroes, or so everyone believed. Fantasy on an ambitious scale, full of action, adventure and drama.