After a Shaper landed on Sucia Island, found out about the illegal shaping taking place on it, and reported it back to the Shaper Council, the council decided to take action and clean up the island before another Shaper would continue the work. Serviles were rounded up, canisters destroyed, and rogues were exterminated. The player enters the game as an apprentice of Shanti, who was sent to the Drypeak Mountains to investigate the colony.