The expansion starts out with the hero apprenticing under a retired adventurer in a village of the wildlands in the Silver Marches. It is a place where hardy people go to get away from their pasts. All is well, until a band of kobolds attacks and steals four ancient artifacts that were in the care of the old teacher. It is now up to the aspiring adventurers to find the artifacts and stop whatever sinister force craving after the artifacts. The quest will lead the heroes through and beyond the frozen north and into the forgotten shadows of Undrentide.