Amane Adesa

Four thousand years have passed since the world shattered. The seas rose, the skies burned, and humanity perished. From the ruins, magic bled back into existence — and the old gods, beings once spoken of in hushed reverence and fear, walked among their creations once more.

In Bandiagara, the beating heart of the Tellem Empire, the Ikone — a sect of sorcerers who have mastered the ethereal force of ŋoo — seek to seize divinity itself. At their helm, Nommotoko, the Ikone Ro of Tellem, stands on the precipice of a ritual designed to forge a weapon. Not one to rival the gods. One to slay them.

But fate is a fickle thing.

Deep within the sacred caves of Shai, the reclusive and pacifistic Nubii are slaughtered — their blood spilled as fuel for the Ikone's ambition. Yet amidst the massacre, one among them refuses to die.

Amane.

A man bound by neither destiny nor fear, he reaches into the abyss and grasps the unthinkable: an ancient force forgotten even by time, its name a whisper that haunts the gods themselves.

Adesa. The All Mother.

Their fusion births something new. Something unnatural. Something impossible. In a single night, Bandiagara — the empire's crown jewel — burns to cinders, its might reduced to nothing before a force unseen since the gods waged war upon the earth.

But destruction has its price. Fatally wounded, hunted by those who fear what they have become, Amane Adesa vanishes into myth.

389 years later, they return.

For the gods remember what Adesa has forgotten.

And they fear what they will become.