In the settling dust of the Eighteenth Flood, the Graveyard lives to see a new Era, one teetering on the brink of war. The Old Bones, once tumultuous, now simmer with a hidden strife, threatening both the human nations below and the divine firmament above. Edel and Rubedo embark on a quest to shoulder the burden of the remaining Gestalts, vying for the title of the Gestalt-To-End-All-Gestalts. Meanwhile, the Lājackal and its rider gather dissidents against the Stag as a harrowing conflict over the new marrow deposit of Antlerfall mounts. Those few who remain grasp humanity’s true purpose must bear their teeth against the Old Bones that remain, else they risk being blown about among the desert dust, failing to discover a far greater evil seal’d within the iron hills.