Uanadain is the Reborn. But laying claim to being the hero who killed a god has made him enemies, even among those he once fought beside. No one wants to accept that the ghouls are in fact the Forerunners: the vanished civilisation in whose footsteps his own people are trying to follow. As his friends search for allies in the coming war, he struggles to unite the Four Realms. Even harder are the battles with memories of his life as Kato, the contempt for what his own people have done - and the knowledge that, in his heart, he not only pities the Forerunners, but admires them. Whatever side he chooses, he will have to act soon. For the rightful owners of the Four Realms are returning, with their god at their head, and for those who have wronged them, they have no mercy left.