In the mainland, "Factions" characters are united with characters from other campaigns when they join forces to eject Shiro's army of the afflicted from "Vizunah Square". At the end, they learn more about the history of Shiro. When he was slain for his murder, he became an "envoy" of Grenth, the god of death, and was given the task of shepherding the newly dead to the underworld. However, Shiro was not content with this fate, and wished to become mortal again, which he hoped to accomplish by slaying the emperor to complete an arcane ritual. To accomplish this, Shiro uses his envoy powers to spread the affliction, and uses the souls of the dead as soldiers in his army. The other envoys are not happy with Shiro's actions and decide to help the players to put an end to him.