The first volume of the game is split into three chapters: The Book of Prophecy, Gems of Power, and Demons Might.

Lythare blames the kingdom's Champion Knight-Paladin, as well as several members of the court for failing to protect the child, and imprisons them in the dungeon.

The Champion's son, knowing that his father must not have deserved imprisonment, sets out on a quest to find the baby with his two companions.

The Aethra Chronicles is a fantasy role playing game similar in style to Ultima and Bards Tale.

The game is mostly played through a bird's eye view perspective where the camera is either showing the countryside, a town or a dungeon.

When the first volume of 'Celystra's Bane' was made and released, it contained three chapters: 'The Book of Prophecy', 'Gems of Power' and 'Demons Might'.

Since the shareware version only contained a single chapter, some people assumed that the second and third 'chapters' (instead of volumes) were never made and the game was left incomplete.