A ten-thousand-year truce between the four Elemental Lords of Air, Earth, Water, and Fire has collapsed, threatening the material world. The Ancestors dispatch Tarnum, using forces from the Immortal Grand Vizier Gavin Magnus of Bracada, to seize the last Elemental Conflux in Enroth. Tracking each Elemental Lord across their four planes, Tarnum discovers that all of them have already abandoned their realms to seize a foothold in the material world by exploiting the time variations between planes. With aid from magic elementals and freed Phoenixes, Tarnum returns home — thirty years later in the outside world — to defeat the Lords at last and send all elemental forces back to their planes, destroying every Conflux and all records of the elemental planes behind him.