A group of young people are enlisted by the Vaduzahn government to march across the land checking in with municipalities and local towns inquiring about troubles. They find more than they expected. to find.
Trilena and her sisters discover one of Kordan's secret towers and attack him there. After a long running battle through the tower, Kordan binds their souls behind shrines to 3 of the four elements.
With the tower in shambles, he inflicts additional structural damage and leaves it buried in the mountains.
The Rahib, Roneld Guttens, arrives at the Siswa monastery to investigate the rumors that Kordan studied there long ago. He discovers the secret tunnels to the buried tower and makes contact with Trilena, and her sisters.
They bribe and threaten him into submission. Using their herbal lore, The Rahib poisons the Siswa and they become his unwitting servants. The Rahib continues to peruse the lore of the monastery while planning to kidnap elven maidens that the Hags will use as new bodies to replace their old ones that crumbled to dust centuries ago.
Roneld Guttens kidnaps two elven maidens from the village of Kota-Hutan. He leads a group of 20 Siswa warriors into the village after dark and kidnapped Sylva, and Merisa. They looked for Rahasia, but she had hidden in the woods.
Following the raid, the Rahib told her father that he would be back to collect Rahasia in three days time.
A group of Siswa attack the mercenaries patrolling the south highway of Vaduzahn. The Siswa are armed with scimitars but the patrolling mercenaries make short work of them, leaving only one of them alive for questioning.
When Finn Drake fails to extract any reason for the attack from the survivor's mind, the group begins to suspect something strange is afoot.
The mercenary group wanding the Vaduzahn road travel to Kota-Hutan. They find a dead Shianti, or elf messenger on the road.
The message details how Roneld Guttens traveled through Kota-Hutan on his way to the Kota-Hutan Monastery. After residing there, he brought the Siswa to his side and was terrorizing the village. The Rahib has demanded that Rahasia turn herself over to him.
The mercenaries find that with the application of spells from Estrella, they can free a member of the Siswa from the Rahib's control. They test this theory by hunting down a patrol of Siswa, and freeing them from the Rahib's control.
The Vaduzahn mercenaries journey to Kota-Hutan Monastery to retake it from Roneld Guttens, the Rahib.
They use the teleport magics of a small roadside shrine to magically enter the lower levels of the Kota-Hutan Monastery. After a short time exploring, they find the Rahib. They quickly subdue him and his Siswa followers.
Upon questioning, he blames his villainy on a trio of hags lead by Trilena. He explains that he used an alchemical mixture taught to him by Trilena, to subjugate the Siswa and they should retun to their senses soon.
The group of mercenaries descend into the ruined tower of Kordan. There they use a magical obelisk to guide them in how to restore the two kidnapped elven maidens to their right mind. They activate magical controls to reverse the body swapping, resulting in the death of Trilena and her two sisters.
They escort the elven maidens back to Kota-Hutan, and within 2 days the Siswa wander into the village confused and apologetic for their roles in the crimes that occurred.