Your home, the village of Willows Dene, burns at the hands of the Shadowfell. Only the power of the Autumn-Aldor Dwinn stopped it from being overrun completely. Now, led by the Aldor, you flee to the west, for the White City, Aldarris. With you are your childhood friends Tani and Witt, the irritable Uplander Otarr Stronghorn, and a colossal golen of mud and stone summoned by the Aldor as the Shadowfell attacked. It is your first night away from Willows Dene, and you have first watch.