The story begins in the city of Thomanchal, a metropolis carved from obsidian and glowing with bioluminescent flora. After three centuries of slumber, the Great Seal began to crack. Lust Mazane stood before the pulsing heart of the city, her silken robes trailing over the cold stone. She was the only one who could hear the "Lust" — not a desire of the flesh, but the ancestral hunger of her people's magic for a new world.