The Daemon War brought untold devastation and destruction upon the nations of the world. Only the sealing of the world’s natural magic allowed the the three human nations – the Mareian Republic, the Northern Kingdom, and the Southlands Empire – to band together with the Dwarven Freehold and the Jewel Empire of the elves and push them out of the world. For most of the world, the end of the war meant rebuilding from the ashes. For the elves, whose Jewel Empire relied on natural magic, the end of the war meant the start of a dark age that would last for the next two hundred years.
Ten years ago, the Heroes of the Empire rescued the Crystal Blood, Princess Illana, heir to the throne of the Jewel Empire from the cleric-turned-dark sorcerer Cull. The elves of the empire were ecstatic that their dark age would come an end. In the intervening decade, a few of the Heroes left, while the rest were forced to deal with the Machivellian politics of the Empire, the decadence of the young woman they rescued, and a rising insurgency of Cull’s successors threatening to sacrifice the Crystal Blood to restore the Empire. The Heroes must come together again to save the Empire from its enemies and the Crystal Blood from herself.