It's been a year since the events of the Dawn of the Winds and the companions going their separate ways.
Half a world away people still go about their business as if it had never happened. Knowing little of thie narrow escape from destruction, they have enough of their own problems.
For something is spreading across the lands, slowly festering in the hearts and minds of those around it. It's already created a huge wall through the city of Hadria, enclosing the undesirables of the population and leaving them to starve. Trade is slowing down and those withut passes see themselves turned away from places they've been going to for generations.
While trying to escape the rule of a new Councillor, two citydwellers find themselves thrown onto a tumultuous jorney taking them right across the continent.
But their problems are only beginning...
For the forces behind last year's events have not been idle and they're now ready to make their next move - far away from the people that thwarted them the last time...