"I am all that is left of the man Genesis. I exist in the dark so Earth's last candle may burn ... They rebuilt me, tortured and forged me, to be a harbinger of hope. But still they want more ... they always want more. My sect trains us to be elite assassins, yet they celebrate us as their beacons of hope ... what a farce we have become." For Genesis, survival has become an art he has honed well. As a Roach from the slums of Earth he learned to thrive amongst repression and pain, well enough to escape and be adopted into an ancient, powerful sect, which acts as the spearhead for all humanity. But to belong, he must adopt the ways of a heretical master, navigating the deadly apprenticeship and world of the Immortals, and somehow still hide the darkness that beckons him.