While men tilled their fields and tended their flocks the Svarts were breeding in tunnels beneath their feet. Driven by some terrible unknown force the Svarts burst from the ground and swept all before them.

A few isolated bands of humanity escaped and saw that if mankind was to survive, the power of the portals must be captured or destroyed. Whispers told of the dark castle where an evil mind drank up the powers of the earth to strengthen his minions.The surviving humans realised with dread in their hearts that they must make their way towards the place that had now become known as Bloodridge.