250 years ago, Ascalon burned. Centuries later, its exiled descendants are besieged on all sides. To save humankind, their queen seeks to negotiate a treaty with the enemy charr, but they won't concede until the Claw of the Khan-Ur is returned from Ascalon's ruins. Now a band of adventurers must set forth into a haunted, war-torn land to retrieve it from the grip of the undead king of Ascalon.