When a traveler stumbles through a magical archway, they find themselves on an inn's threshold in the heart of an ancient forest. Inside, they find an ancient sprite who tells the story of the door which brought them into the Echowood.
Waking to the sound of raised voices, the Traveler listens in as an aged witch lays a curse on Grael before storming out of the inn. Grael tells the story of two witches he once knew, and the rivalry which shaped their lives.
Wandering the forest outside the inn, the Traveler stumbles across a broken sword, abandoned beneath the trees. Grael tells them of the rise and fall of Etrius Oakheart: the first, last, and only emperor of the Echowood.
Walking through the woods with Grael, the Traveler discovers a strange lake, hidden amongst the trees. Grael's terrified warnings lead into a strange tale of the sailing captain Meredith Elmroot.
The Traveler stumbles upon a door in the wall of the inn's cellar - a door that opens into a hellish cavern below the inn. Grael tells them the story of a spirit's passage through the underworld of the Echowood.
Grael tells the Traveler the story of a dwarven village high in the mountains, and its battle with a dragon during one of the worst winters the Echowood had ever known.
As the Traveler struggles with haunting visions of their previous life, Grael tells them a story from his own past -- a myth-making attempt to reach the stars high above the world.
The Traveler finds an unlikely friend in a wandering bard, who regales them with the story of the Echowood's creation: the struggle against decay and destruction sung in the Lay of Nevermoor.
Grael finds himself alone beside the ancient archway -- the door between worlds. There, he finds someone he did not expect, and a story about the arch's creator becomes a meditation on time, change, and the end of all things.
In the dead of the last winter the Echowood might ever see, a mother attempts to comfort her child with a tale from another winter where the end seemed nigh.
