Dragons once ruled the skies, giants once trampled the earth, and elven magic once reached its zenith. At the height of their glory, every race that dominated the world heard the same whisper, then brought about its own destruction.
Now it is humanity's turn.
Thane, an orphan from Fallingstone Town, is set on the path of a mage by a glowing fragment of a scroll. The Weave is unusually receptive to him, and he can study all eight schools of magic. But every time he uses this gift, a gaze from beyond the world settles upon him.
He is the key to the seal, grown of its own accord among humankind; the vessel the Annihilator most desires to possess; and, when the gods are bound by oath and unable to descend, humanity's final wild card.
When the Twilight Society sweeps across the continent, the gods fall silent, and the apocalypse returns, he answers as a mortal the question that no fallen age ever could:
Why shouldn't a light that burned briefly be able to illuminate eternity?
