After an excavation of an ancient battle site, Manceologist Morgan Rechis has made the discovery of a lifetime – he has found the missing codex of the Aphotic. Except things don’t quite go as one might hope. When Rechis returns home to Somnolence, the codex thrums to life calling forth an invasion from something that is beyond all comprehension. Something that can plunge the very nation into war. Only a group of courageous adventurers stands in the way of the Aphotic and the threat they bring.