The Outrydrs, Kandras and Kovan set out to explore beyond the realm of Bethyia to the east. After a troubling dream the miffit Tor sets out on a quest to help his friends, but finds himself in a realm fraught with danger and intrigue, where a dying truthseer reveals that he is the long expected Slight One, the chosen monarch, who must retrieve the Primal Blade and save the realm from Axrath, an evil usurper and powerful demon lord.