The essence must pass on. It always has.
Now it is Hermes who must let go - pouring three thousand years of divinity into the son of Pierce, and facing the one question no immortal has ever answered: what happens to a god when his time finally comes?
But this transfer is unlike any before it. As Hermes confronts his own decline, something ancient stirs beyond the edge of the world.
The Alterrans are coming.
The true founders - the ones who began it all, who seeded gods among men and vanished into legend - have returned. And they have come to take their own back home.
The reign of the Pharaohs is ending. What replaces it was never human at all.