Overview

The Earth Rages. Humanity is hunted. Ten years have come and gone since the might of the Seven Realms was thwarted with lightning and thunder and devouring shadows. For Cirroco Storm, Emissary of the Lord Judge of the Seven Realms, it has been a decade wasted. The search for the Leap, the next step in human evolution, has been abandoned. She suspects the Lord Judge has found his Leap, hiding in the Vale, the digital recreation of the Earth and everything within it. She begins her careful plot of insurrection. In an apple orchard on the cusp of reality, Edward Toll, a simple apple peddler, nurses his grief and awaits the time to act. Brinna Wilde and Rosary Delacroix, safely protected from the Rages of nature within Edward's orchard, wait for the next step along their path to destiny. Quinlan Bowden, after guarding his children from the ravages of the Rages and the madness of the Wrynd, is awakened by a dream. It is time to journey to the Wilderness and reunite with a little old man with abilities beyond comprehension. And in a sad house on a sad hill, a no-account named Harley Nearwater, driven to madness by things he did and things he saw, is freed of his demons by the Grey Walker. He is at long last taken off the shelf to return to his chaotic ways. The End of Everything Has Begun.