Anthony Rustin
A seasoned explorer trained to cross hostile worlds, read danger quickly, and keep moving when every familiar certainty has fallen away. Anthony brings discipline, resilience, and an unshakable sense of responsibility to the unknown.
The premise
A peaceful faith becomes a cosmic nightmare
The Revenants were the first human explorers to reach and settle the farthest corners of space, gaining an understanding of the cosmos no one before them had known. Over time, their experience, wisdom, and knowledge became a peaceful faith, respected and followed by many. Decades later, that faith has taken a monstrous form: an ethereal calling devastating every world they colonized.
Nova Valentia has already fallen. Anthony “Rust” Rustin, the planet’s last living soul, fights a calling that has transformed everyone else into something unearthly, murderous, and insane. As he struggles to survive, he searches for whoever—or whatever—destroyed his once-peaceful world.
Aboard the transport ship Bihter, an unearthly horror hunts Zephryne, who has resisted and escaped the calling since her dark and mysterious childhood.
On Redland, Marshal Vernon Hale investigates a mass suicide driven by a maddening distortion of reality. Fanatical believers embrace these horrors as sacred trials—a divine calling that promises ascension.
As the calling spreads, Rust, Zephryne, and Vernon must fight for their sanity—and confront a secret more horrifying than any of them can imagine.
At a glance
Three lives. One calling.
- The Revenants’ peaceful faith, transformed into cosmic horror
- Nova Valentia: Anthony Rustin, the planet’s last living soul
- Bihter: Zephryne faces the calling she has resisted since childhood
- Redland: Marshal Vernon Hale investigates mass suicide
- Sanity, fanaticism, and the promise of ascension