Before the skies burned and the oceans turned to dust, humanity lived unaware of the true cosmic hierarchy. Above them, hidden in the folds of deep space, was a race known only as the Vey'Zar — a hive-mind species of sentient rot and twisted growth. They did not conquer with ships. They corrupted with seeds.
Worlds became hives. Cities became nurseries. And mankind? Fertilizer.
But deep beneath the ruins of a forgotten Earth city, the Temple of the Hollow Flame endured — a secret order trained not in warfare, but in erasure. Assassins born to kill the unkillable. And among them, only a few remained after the cleansing fires:
Kael Thorne, branded in ash and scarred in silence.