The land of Oerth knew five centuries of relative peace, thanks to a holy seal—composed of a collection of divinely-gifted legendary artifacts used to vanquish the dreaded lich king, Vecna—that prevented the power of necromancy from effecting her people or dead.
All of that changes for the worse as a cult suddenly appears to stir wide-scale chaos—damaging the vital "necrotic seal" in a wicked plot to retrieve the remains of their master, the dreaded "Whispered One", and return him to the land of the living to continue his desolate reign.
Now, an unlikely group of heroes must join forces with powerful forces from across the land to prevent the revival of an evil beyond any of their comprehensions.