The ninth and final Ruin unexpectedly begins. The resentful Great Old Ones, having quietly re-awoken and marshaled their strength in secret, summon vast hordes of evil and undead creatures against the peoples of Addar. Their movements are shrouded by the T'Zzanti, among the most devious of the eldritch beings, who succeeded in hiding their plans even from Minden, and who centuries earlier had secretly infested and corrupted the herald Agamon.