The black rain of the rainy season brings ominousness, and the young sun priest Ek Balam is horrified to discover that the blood sacrifice ritual passed down from generation to generation is actually nourishing the "Shadow of Chaos" crawling at the bottom of the well. When the reincarnation of fate becomes the evil god's table, he must betray tradition and join forces with the rigid but wise old calendar master Itzam Kanur on the observatory. Using the stars as their calculations and the sun as their blades, they must find vitality in the gaps of the long calendar, fight against the whispers of the past that distort time and space, expose the conspiracy of the false gods of the meteorite totem, and use a light that tears apart the dimensions on the top of the crumbling pyramid to ignite a spark of hope for the city-state.
