Cab Bage came to the Valley of the Fallen Stars with an adventuring group in order to kill the vampire Queen Nostraya. They traveled down the Gray Mare river towards the Ember Keep. The adventurers delved into the keep, and found Queen Nostraya looking over her valley from a tall tower.

In the ensuing battle, it seemed as if the Devil Queen hardly put up a fight. She did not block the weapons or spells that rained down upon her. She was pierced by silvered arrows, struck by lightning, attacked by summoned beasts. And yet these otherwise fatal blows barely seemed to touch her.

Finally, with a deep sigh, Queen Nostraya returned the adventurer's attacks. She summoned a swarm of bats that drove one warrior off the tower to splat onto the rocks below. She bit out the throat of another warrior with all the effort it takes to bite into a ripe peach. Yet another she magically charmed, and he willingly lay down his weapons and wandered off. Finally she turned her attention to Cab. Before he could raise his weapons, Nostraya raised his fallen companion as a zombie. Cab was forced to fight his own friend, and the battle took them tot he very edge of the tower. The zombie charged Cab, and they both plummeted down into a river below.

Cab woke in the marshes near the Ember Keep, gravely injured. Figures in gray cloaks bound him into a boat and rowed upriver. They brought Cab to Grayview Abbey, high in the mountains. There, his wounds were tended by priests of Arawan, who lived in an isolated hermitage, protected by a deal with the black dragon Morovahn and the knights of the Grayview.

Cab was told he was rescued by the knights of Grayview Abbey, but was never told why.

Years have passed, and Cab was eventually sent away from the Valley of the Fallen Stars.

Cab's adventuring group passed Rothvel in the night. They knew it was a barony ruled by Baron Rothvel, an enigmatic and frightening vampire with a passion for hunting and fine dining.

Cab's adventuring group never traveled into Umber Dell, but they knew they could rely on the tortles who live there as allies in their fight against Queen Nostraya. Cab was told that tortles used to live throughout this valley, but Queen Nostraya no longer allows them to leave Umber Dell.

A massive blue crystal set in an island in the middle of Gray Mare Lake. It was said that the crystal was one of the legendary fallen stars that had littered the valley long ago and given it its name.

Cab had heard that these abandoned castles had once, long ago, been protected by knights who kept the valley safe from beasts and raiders. Now it is home to small villages and ruled over by one of Queen Nostraya's vampire minions.

From Cab's hermitage in the mountains, he had a view of Grayview Abbey. Unlike other locations in the Valley, the Abbey is not ruled over by Queen Nostraya and her vampires. Instead, it is home to a mysterious group of knights, lead by a goliath paladin named Dawnbreaker.

The knights of Grayview Abbey stay protected from Queen Nostraya because of the black dragon Morovahn. Though the dragon is evil, it is also greedy, and the knights give it regular payments of treasures and gems.

The Devil Queen Nostraya rules the Valley of the Fallen Stars from her throne in the Ember Keep. It is an ancient hold with thick walls and devious traps. As Cab's adventuring group made their way through, they climbed a tower in which they saw a massive, cracked red gem, the size of a cottage. It seemed to pulse with light and life, though a huge crack had been opened in one side like a wound. On the roof of the tower, Cab and the other adventurers battled Queen Nostraya, and were one by one dispatched.

Cab and his adventuring group stopped briefly in Seabriar. It is a city of thieves, smugglers, and pirates, who pay tribute to the Devil Queen Nostraya with payments of gold and blood.