This is the Sword and Sorcery genre film. The story begins via flashbacks to Red Sonja's childhood. Sonja loses her family to the evil Queen Gedren. In the first of several massacres, Gedren throws a group of Amazon priestesses into a bottomless pit and steals their magical talisman, a glowing green orb. Informed by her dying sister, Red Sonja swears vengeance. She's assisted by the youthful Prince Tarn. Tagging along at a distance is the adventurer, Prince Kalidor .