A nagging curiosity and the foolhardiness of youth drives Sheilagh to throw caution to the wind. She sneaks into the central chamber of Eldre'thalas to catch a glimpse of Immol'thar-trapped within it's arcane prison, unprepared for the danger that awaits her.

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.