Lady Tessina sends out a call for powerful adventurers, they must stop a mad demon from letting loose one of the worst monstrosities in the abyss, Daezanau the drider lich. The stories were true, he really did kill thousands of demons and devils, he was trapped on a prison plane by Lady Tyss' mother Priestess Zyxoni the devout. The truth was that Daezanau almost killed her and she fled into the forbidden city of Cryptoria, Daezanau followed her and so Zyxoni opened up the portal to the prison plane Abel. Here her daughter the now Lady Tyss closed it as soon as Daezanau entered it, there was something that came out before it closed and Tyss fled having to leave her mother behind.