For the light must die as we are reborn.
The stars must fall as the Thousand rise.
The end must come before the sun returns. Myther armies pop up around the globe, murdering seers and humans, taking over quarantine cities. Worse, the grisly, ritualistic murders aren't just sadistic, but part of a millennia-long plan of the Dreng to leave Earth, destroying the planet and murdering most of its inhabitants in the process...