The war is over, but the war crimes walk around town looking for work. Nancy Schaal Bancroft hunts the man tasked with executing them, only to discover that every Incarnate she finds has already made peace with being a monster in a world that will never forgive them for existing. The show understands something most revenge stories don't: the real violence isn't in the final duel, it's in every day these creatures have to choose between vengeance and survival.

A brutal civil war split the nation of Patria into North and South. Outnumbered, the North turned to dark magic and forbidden technology, remaking soldiers into half-beast Incarnates with nearly godlike power. Those Sacred Beasts helped end the war, but in peacetime they must find a way to live in society or be killed by a Beast Hunter. Hank Henriette, once their captain, now takes the lives of Incarnates who have given in to the beasts within them. Nancy Schaal Bancroft watched her father, a former Incarnate, die at the hands of a Beast Hunter, and she sets out to track that man down. Meeting her target changes her course, and she begins searching for the truth behind her father's death and the troubled place Incarnates hold in the world.