After defeating the Allomanian Army and its allies on the fields before the City of Lothar, the King Kreel retreats west behind the mountains known as the Black Curtain. In the City of Lothar, Vesten is crowned the Emperor Returned and declares the end of the Second Age and the beginning of the Third Age of Treumandom. But the Darkness still rules in Allomania and the victory of Truemans is only half won. A great army is readied and soon on the march into Allomania to hunt down the King Kreel and destroy him and drive out the Darkness from New Earth for good.