Most of the region of the Mericas has aligned with MidMerica and Goddard at this point, leading Goddard to know that both of them are alive and well. At first, the apprentice just seems awed at Scythe Anastasia's presence, but later it is revealed that he betrayed his master and told WestMerica about Rowan and Citra being in the castle. They stay in a castle occupied by Scythe Possuelo, his BladeGuards, and an apprentice.

Citra and Rowan are hidden in a region that has not aligned with Goddard. Manufacturers around the world get work orders like they have never seen, calling for new molds and blueprints. The Toll, Scythe Morrison, Sister Astrid, and Curate Mendoza go around the regions, calming violent Tonists. Scythe Morrison was convinced to glean the Toll by Goddard but only acts like it because he feels as if he has been accepted and is in his element. They do go there, but around 800 of the 900 do not survive due to the guns that are on the island to prevent unwanted visitors. Nimbus agents have been gathered by the Director of the Authority Interface of MidMerica to go to those coordinates. Scythe Possuelo is on-board and manages to hide both of them in his region. Their team is the one that brings up the Vault of Relics and Futures filled with the scythe diamonds and, unknowingly, Citra and Rowan. Since they are Madagascan, they are gender fluid a woman when the sky is clear and a man when the sun is obscured. The only notable salvager is a Madagascan named Jerico Soberanis, called “Jeri“ by their friends. Also at the same time, salvagers have decided to retrieve all they can from the ruins of Endura. It leads to the Kwajalein Atoll, many islands all creating multiple atolls. He gives them coordinates courtesy of The Thunderhead. At the same time, a few former Nimbus agents kidnap Greyson, hearing of his so-called power of being the only person on earth not unsavory.

With no way of escape, having crashed their plane, they learn to live off the land for a year or two. One they could open, but another scythe is required to open the bunker with the supposed “failsafe”. Scythe Faraday and Munira Atrushi have found the Kwajalein and two secret bunkers. Everyone on Earth besides The Toll has been marked as Unsavory, leading The Thunderhead to be silent to everyone but him.

The Toll, formerly known as Greyson Tolliver, has become the Tonists’ “prophet” of sorts. Everyone but Greyson Tolliver.Įndura has long sunk, Goddard is now Overblade of MidMerica, and Tonists have begun to instigate violent acts against anything that The Toll doesn’t like. Citra and Rowan have disappeared through the sinking of Endura, and Scythe Goddard became Overblade of North Merica, and the Thunderhead closed itself off to everyone by making everyone unsavory. The book picks up three years after the end of Thunderhead.

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