Wind blows across the sandy wastes of the Al Corren desert. A lone traveler sits by a fire, cloaked in heavy linens against the winds. As the distant burst of magical power in the mountains carries itself over the air, the traveler stops and looks up. Slowly rising to his...

A verdant valley spreads deep across a stretch of the Great Northern Mountain Wastes. Surrounded by green grass and small, stunted trees, a huge castle dominates the center of the valley. Hewn all of ancient stone and carved with runes older than any across the known world, the vast structure...

The Kar'din swamps east of Ahm'shara. A vast bog land dominating the land from the eastern edge of the Great Northern Mountains all the way to the coast lands on the southeast border of Ahm'shara; no other swamp land is so huge. Full of sickly looking trees and foul, stagnant...

Somewhere, in a distant place, the ground shakes. Somewhere, deep beneath the earth's surface, a creature lying dormant for over a century stirs. Dry, papery skin and bones showing close to the surface, not a single hair left on this apparently long dead creature's head. A rolling thrum of power...