Heroes Chronicles: Masters of the Elements

Story

In Masters of the Elements, a ten-thousand-year truce between the elemental lords of air, earth, water and fire ends. The ancestors send Tarnum to end this feud before it destroys the material world. The only way to reach the elemental planes is to take control of the last remaining elemental river in Enroth. With the powers of Gavin Magnus, the immortal Grand Vizier of Bracada, Tarnum captures the last conflux and discovers the location of the gateway to the clouds. When Tarnum reaches the Plane of Air, he discovers that Shalwend, the Lord of Air, has already left his realm. When Shalwend destroys the Gate to the Clouds behind Tarnum, Tarnum is forced to find another way to return to his world. He must become a master of all four elements before he can return to Antagarich. Next, he travels to the Plane of Water, where he learns that Acwalander, the Water Lord, has also left his realm. In the Earth Plane, Tarnum is shocked to discover that Reamus (a wizard who traveled to the Plane 200 years ago) is still alive. Even stranger, only 16 years have passed on the Earth Plane in that time. Since Gralkor, the Lord of Earth, has also left his plane, Tarnum and his men realize that the Elemental Lords are using the time differences between the material world and the planes to gain a foothold in the material world before Tarnum can return. In the Plane of Fire, Reamus and Barsolar (King Magnus' cousin and advisor to Tarnum) learn of the Plane of Magic. Magic connects the elements together, so they know it will give them the advantage they need against the elemental lords. After receiving the help of the magical elementals and returning to the Plane of Fire to free the phoenixes enslaved by Pyrannaste, Lord of Fire, Tarnum leads his army back to the material world. Thirty years have passed in the world since Tarnum left it. King Magnus brings an army to support Tarnum. While they are in camp, Magnus and Tarnum exchange stories. Tarnum learns that one of his behemoths killed Magnus centuries ago in the Battle for Castle Steelhorn, and that Magnus somehow awoke to find himself immortal and later became King of Bracada. Tarnum, however, considers Magnus arrogant and self-righteous and refuses to associate with him. After the elemental lords are defeated, Tarnum sends his elemental troops back to their plains. Coldly, he lets Gavin Magnus know that the Elementals will never return to Antagarich (though they do so later in Armageddon's Blade), and asks the Magical Elementals to destroy all Confluxes and all records of the Elemental Plains before he returns to his life as a barbarian.