Temperance is a acolyte mage living with the survivors of the Sundering in a large, underground, cave complex. She has made the choice to join a small team leaving to search for seeds and food that they can bring back to their people. What they find is a lot more terrifying. Facing the the blinding, cold, and incessant storms on one side and monsters that inhabit the frozen wasteland, Temperance, her brother Astor, the book worm Gimlak, Esta the scout, and Daphina their leader, they must survive together or die alone.