In The Heir of Shadows, you've spent most of your adult life working and playing hard. You like to get drunk and try to get laid as much as possible when you get off work. In that regard, you're a typical young man in the game The Heir of Shadows. However, you're going to discover that all kinds of supernatural phenomena are hidden in plain sight. What does that mean to you? Well, it means that what you thought was the real world and this land of supernatural oddities are about to collide, and oh, you're also about to discover a few interesting secrets about yourself.