Following a series of unclear dreams that plagued his sleep, the Captain arrives in a foreign world gripped by an ice age and on the brink of death with a single name to guide him and his companion through the frozen wastes. Yet the people of this world persevere in the face of adversity, adapting to the world's changing climate and building their cities around monumental machines able to ward off the cold. Despite the warnings of the denizens of this world to let whatever the snow buries remain as such, the Captain pushes on in order to find that which beckoned him to this world.