The land is consumed by three overlapping catastrophes: war, religious conflict, and a disease called the Scourge that strips men of their humanity and draws strange beasts out of the wilderness and toward the cities. The Three Creators have gone silent. Rumors have begun to spread through what remains of civilization — whispers that a cleric found the crypt of an abandoned church and inside it discovered the preserved corpse of Febilis, the God of All Diseases. An elite soldier is dispatched to investigate and bring answers to the religious authorities who want to know if the rumors are true.