Summary
It is roughly 600 BDP in Eldre'thalas, 300 years after Prince Tortheldrin and his loyalists murdered their vassals in cold blood in order to hoard the volatile power of immol'thar, ensuring their continued immortality. It is in this tyrannical environ that High Magister Celestra Brightwell is rudely shaken from her suicidal stupor when a forbidden child is left at her doorstep.