"Kyrandia is disappearing. Rock by rock, and tree by tree. Kyrandia ceases to exist.
All the evidence points towards one perilous conclusion, a curse. Zanthia the alchemist and youngest of the royal mystics, has been chosen to undertake a journey to the centre of the world to break the spell. Out of sync and out on foot, her journey reveals nothing is what it seems, everything is what it isn't, and she can count her friends on one hand, literally!"