Your village has managed to stay out of the War of the Bend'r-mahk until marauders arrive — not as a random raid, but as part of a broader effort to capture the Shadowmage Skelos Undriel, who has fled from the Battlemage Jagar Tharn and hidden himself in the chaos surrounding Dragonstar in the Western Reach. The player is pulled into the hunt and into the wider search for the Shadowkeys and Star Teeth, ancient tools powerful enough to challenge Tharn's agents. The trail ends in the Crypt of the Heart.