The dark priest, Samuel, is dead, but at what cost? In a time of darkness the young boy, Bayne, has bonded with Samuel's essence. The minds of all who connect with the essences are tested as an undefeatable evil reaches its tendrils through their minds. Beasts roam Solaris' landscape, preying on its starving inhabitants. Can the remainder of Julieth's league overcome the voices within them and the beasts plaguing the land, or will they be devoured in their struggle? Is the boy Julieth once loved like a son forever lost? As the temptation of godhood, power and hate tempts all people bonded with essences, who will overcome the control and who will embrace what is whispered to them as destiny? An enemy hand opens as their final hope. Can it be trusted?