In the Shadow Realm the Tower of Virium stands as a dark pillar of ascendancy in the city of Nex. Tristan's path leads him here, learning new magic at the Academy of Marana. A dark dimension filled with Shades, Inferi, and the Shadow Warriors called the Necari Neco. A world of death and decay, ruled by a tyrant named Jack, Tristan's grandfather. Here he creates the ultimate Staff of power, and discovers the Realms dark secrets, even ones hidden from his grandfather. Tristan finds an even greater evil then the Elders, the ones who have started the Awakening, which is transforming all the people of Earth and making visible the lands of Vortex. Nothing will ever be the same as everyone discovers they are part of a race of magic beings from another world. Now the Al Jabbar are coming to destroy them all, and take back the Aleph Sphere.