From the back of the box:

"The world has filled with uncertainty and strife. Kingdoms quarrel and war. Religions argue which paths are true. Magical orders drift further from the concerns of the mundane. Yet rumor spreads of lost civilizations found, sacred writs surfacing and king and commoner alike dreaming visions dark and foreboding. The faiths try to drown the tales, the lords to quench the Tellers, yet word drifts to the ears of men. Within them all lies the theme that fills hearts with fear; The Absolution ... the end of all things! Can any arise to alter the course of a doomed world? Who could undertake such an impossible task?"