From the introduction: Sandpoint has faced few trials and dangers over its forty-two-year history, but that is all about to change. Unknown to the town’s founders, they built their community over the ruins of an ancient stronghold once used as a laboratory and prison, a place where horrific experiments took place. These are the Catacombs of Wrath, a place where arcanists explored and perfected the stolen arts of lifeshaping and fleshwarping, one of several such sites used by Runelord Alaznist’s apprentices during Thassilon’s height. When Thassilon fell, these catacombs went dormant, but the one buried under Sandpoint was not fated to stay that way.