Iggie, illegitimate son of Lazaronia's two vilest sorcerers, now both dead, believes his father Ignarius, twin to the late King Lazarone III, should have been king. Iggie, who never knew his father, goes in search of his stepfather, an outcast god (Lazaronia's equivalent of Satan) convinced Fallanein can help him claim his rightful place as heir to the throne. He finds Fallanein trapped in a place of eternal cold and darkness. But in releasing the fallen god through a rift that he makes, Iggie drowns the whole of Lazaonia in snow and ice. Even worse, he frees an evil monster, known as the Hydralon. And Fallenein isn't the ally he hoped for.