You are T'alisalia Zhaunillanin, of the Great House Zhaunillanin, of the Ilythiiri city of Che'el A'lal. Tricked by an unseen foe, you have been blamed for the theft of a sacred book from the Zhaunillanin Great Library. Your punishment should have been slow death, but, at the request of a Priestess of LLolth, you have been spared. Instead you have become something worse, Dobluth, an outcast. Scorned and shunned by the rest of your House, your only recourse is to find who stole the book from under your guard, and redeem yourself. As you progress in your investigations, you discover a deadly plot that threatens the very existence of the city itself...