Three hundred years ago, the kingdom of Caldria was the light of the continent. King Vorath, who feared death above all else, ordered his miners to dig deep beneath the capital, until they found the “Ember Heart”: a shard of a star that fell before time began.
On the night of the rite meant to conquer death, the Ember Heart blazed. The whole capital collapsed into the underworld, leaving only the vast Caldris Caldera. Ash fell for a hundred days and a hundred nights, and so the people named this land Ashenfall, the land of falling ash.
The dead beneath the ruined city never found rest. The Heart's flame still beats within their bones, and now that rhythm has begun to quicken once more.
Emberhold, the last village on the caldera's rim, was built over the seal that bars the way below. All who gather here are “Ashbound”: souls once touched by the Heart's flame. However many times they die, they rise again at the rune circle.
You are one of them. A whisper in your dreams calls you down, deeper and deeper, to where the Ember Heart waits. Go down and quench that flame, before you turn to ash like the rest of them.
The zones
The road to the Ember Heart runs through seven zones, each with a guardian barring the way down. See every zone →