Dak'tari was a child conceived in an alliance with Darkness and raising in a fortress dedicated to death and murder. Till the day comes when she is embraced by her heritage and a dark forgotten god as the instrument of his revenge against the gods of Tamora, which had cast him down eons ago.

While a party of humans, elves and dwarfs head into The Northern Waste to investigate the whispered rumors that a hoard of creatures are amassing for an assault on Tamora. Dak'tari enters the realm of the dead on a quest to destroy those that betrayed her beloved.