In Book One of the Phantammeron, a new world is created by the Essence Eternal for his children, the Primordial Ones. But their savage conflicts soon destroy the world he had made. Those that survive must confront the sad fate of their world and the horrors of the Emptiness and Nothingness sent to doom them. But a mystical tree in the haunted forests of Phantaia and the strange waters of a cursed pool will lead them to a greater truth.