Once upon a time, there were four heroes who ended the Illager Empire and destroyed the Orb of Dominance, an orb of near endless power, too much power that can corrupt those who possess it, both physically and mentally. The shards of the orb blasted across the entire world.

Cut to a poor peasant named Pennie. She was frail and malnourished, and lived in a medieval kingdom. She always barely was able to stand, always shambling, barely skin and bone. She’d lean against the wall desperate to stay alive, while the endless warm summer taunted her, as she saw the happy children play and all of the people richer than her have no care in the world, it filled her with a cold envy and hatred. Until the day one of the shards of the Orb of Dominance crashed into the kingdom outside her poor excuse of a house.

Fearfully but curiously, she picked it up. The magic of the shard filled her with immense power, corrupting her already cold mind… only making it even colder… this frost-like coldness inside her became physical, her flesh freezing a light blue ice. She stormed the Lone Fortress where the happy king and queen lived. By then her cold hatred and envy consumed her so much, it spread into the very air itself, fire going out and the walls developing frost. With a wrath filled screech she froze the king and queen in ice. By that point her very flesh had frozen and snapped off, leaving her a frigid skeletal form. Horrified by her own appearance, she hid herself in a black ruined cloak.

She sat upon her new throne, holding the shard in her hands before hugging it close, never wanting to let it go. She took the crown of the queen and corrupted it with frost, putting the shard on top like a gem. By that point, the coldness in her heart had plagued the land, as the summer was plunged into an endless winter. She was no longer Pennie, she had become absolutely wretched...*

The Wretched Wraith…

Those who bowed to the Wretched Wraith became loyal servants and guards, and those who didn’t became incased in ice, becoming sentient ice golems. The once happy kingdom full of laughter fell to cold silence…

You hear of this endless winter from the now Frosted Fjord by a citizen who barely escaped alive. As an adventurer and descendent of the four heroes, it was up to you to take back the shard, end this winter, and hopefully, just maybe… show Pennie what happiness is like.

You enter the silent frosted village. You hear the cold breath and scowl of the Wretched Wraith all the way from the throne room of her Lone Fortress…