Ireolden has seen many Ages come and go and always the Volskaia were involved somehow. Shem was imprisoned at the end of the First Shadowfall when he and his minions were defeated by Vargus and his Volskaian kin. Shem has spent thousands of years plotting his revenge and will stop at nothing to bring about the Second Shadowfall. Festus has been chronicling and studying the history of Ireolden his whole life...