Sequestered in the blackness of the dreaded Tower of High Sorcery in Palanthas, surrounded by nameless creatures of evil, Raistlin Majere weaves a plan to conquer the darkness - to bring it under his control.

Crysania, a beautiful and devoted cleric of Paladine, tries to use her faith to lead Raistlin from the darkness. She is blind to his shadowed designs, and he draws her slowly into his neatly woven trap.

Made aware of Raistlin’s plan, a distraught Caramon travels back in time to the doomed city of Istar in the days before the Cataclysm. There, together with the ever-present kender Tasslehoff, Caramon will make his stand to save Raistlin’s soul.

The War of the Lance is over, but the scars it left behind run deep. While nations begin to rebuild, new shadows stir—deeper, more personal, and far more dangerous. Raistlin Majere, now a black-robed wizard of extraordinary power, turns his gaze beyond the mortal world. Obsessed with testing his strength against the gods themselves, he sets into motion a plan to challenge Takhisis, the Queen of Darkness, and seize her place in the pantheon.

To do so, Raistlin must journey into the distant past—back to the time of the Kingpriest of Istar, whose arrogance and ambition brought about the Cataclysm. In this era, Raistlin seeks the secrets of the Portal to the Abyss, the only gateway through which a mortal may confront a god. But the journey requires more than magic. It requires Caramon, his loyal twin brother—broken now, a shell of the warrior he once was—and the ever-curious Tasslehoff Burrfoot, whose presence introduces unpredictable complications in the flow of time.

Crysania, a noblewoman and devout cleric of Paladine, becomes Raistlin’s newest pawn—and perhaps, unwittingly, his conscience. Drawn to the darkness within him and believing she can redeem it, she agrees to help him reach the Portal. But Raistlin’s manipulation runs deep, and Crysania finds herself torn between her faith and her fascination with the mage who walks the edge of godhood.

As Raistlin gathers his strength, Caramon embarks on a path of painful rebirth. Tricked into joining the time-traveling quest, he is hurled into Istar alongside Tasslehoff and forced to confront the world he once tried to forget. In the grand city of Istar, where divine arrogance rules and the Kingpriest prepares to demand the gods cleanse the world, Caramon begins to reclaim his purpose. Where once he was the protector of his twin, now he must become his challenger—perhaps even his destroyer.

As the Kingpriest’s folly leads inevitably to doom, and the fiery mountain that will become the Cataclysm draws near, the twins’ paths begin to diverge. Raistlin pursues his dark ascent, while Caramon begins to understand that the battle ahead is not just for Krynn, but for Raistlin’s soul. In a world on the verge of destruction, the seeds of their final confrontation are sown.