During a festival to honor their primary goddess an island's population all drowns on land. Did they somehow offend their goddess or has another deity struck at her by killing her chosen people? For the awkward group of survivors who suddenly found themselves forced to leave that day its a serious question. In fear they decide to stick together and head inland away from the sea but only one of them has even an academic knowledge of the mainland or the many gods worshiped there but they quickly realize at least one god wants them to work together, the god of fate and divination. In the midst of this confusion they encounter a being they had all thought was just myth, a wizard. The wizard appears friendly and in return all she wants is a little help. They suspect that they really have no choice in the matter.