The Gnome King has disappeared and the only clues of his whereabouts are a missing book from the King's library called, The Complete Book of Segais Creatures, and a mysterious key. The Outbounders have been given the task of finding King Ogham which takes them on an adventure into dangerous and magical lands of dragons and giant insects. Meanwhile, one Outbounder, the elusive Ulmarian elf Piper Cruith has been captured and imprisoned under two counts of treason and two counts of murder, by the The Elf Queen and forcibly married off to a Balgann elf. The other Outbounders have yet to know of her fate.