The player forms a party by creating several characters of various races, and causing each to join some guilds to teach them useful skills. You are one such adventurer, tasked with searching and making safe The Depths of Dejenol. Having nearly run out of experienced adventurers, the city elders have decided to train new adventurers to take up this task.
Now, the city elders have decided to reopen the mines, and cleanse them of their evil inhabitants. The mines were eventually sealed, and remained so for over a thousand years. After centuries of digging, a floor gave way deep in the mines, and monsters began to pour out, killing the miners. Over fifteen hundred years ago, the dwarves built the mines and the city above them, Dejenol.