Long ago, there was a man unlike any other. He lived in the barren plateau-land east of Eden, and visited even his own kin only seldom. Then, still he spoke of things men did not understand, not as if his own ideas were rarefied, but as if an impenetrable mist inevitably descended on his hearers. His voice chilled the air. Cold, languid, yet somehow holy. Some said that the very breath of the gods passed through his lungs. Others that he was mad. And then, one day, he vanished.
Vanished, that is, right in front of everyone’s eyes. Society implements advanced research programs, as a world infused with the supernatural is still strangely at a loss to comprehend either the man or his absence. A thousand years pass and man is on the verge of an Advancement poised to reverse aging: a graft from a tree, implanted in the human genome. But suddenly, sirens sound, and the hinterland is engulfed in water.
Today’s Dr. Ariana Tungsten has devoted her scholarly life to unlocking the labyrinth of deductions, inferences, and mere hunches that could disprove her contemporary’s presumptions about ancient history. A simple archeological expedition to ruins near Giza turns deadly.
The countdown continues. Floodwaters, borne both from the firmament above and from the earth below, have breached all but the last four bunkers. Using crucial time-travel technology invented in the course of investigating Enoch’s disappearance, the genetically upgraded intellectual elite are hard at work making sure the Advancement can be replicated by a future society. Will their vengeance succeed, and when?
To be released Feb. 15, 2026 (probably).