AscendantSun's memory stretches back to the bloody birth of the cosmos. Created to serve a dead god, he tired of his empty religion and adopted the faith of his former enemies. Now, a threat from the past is forcing him to choose between his new friends and his own people. Prophesy is against him and his new allies. Numbers, too. But, the greatest threat is mistrust. Can they forge an effective alliance with the Stretchers before the bright power rising in the east destroys them?