Being the first haunted to defeat the Shade, Vergil Torres should have been swelling with joy and pride. After all, he saved his friends and learned secrets not even 50 years of Shade Study could discover. Yet, this victory came at a heavy toll.
The guilt over Eris's death. The regret of finding out the truth of the Cult. And the heavy burden of stopping Azgarmoth, the source of the mysterious Shade, from entering their world, knowing that failure means that life as they know it, will end, all weighs heavily on the 16-year-old high school student.
To make matters worse, because of the seal Vergil undid, the still-operating cult is now more powerful than ever, commanding an army of Shades and cultists embedded in various aspects of society. Mass protests and groups erupted from the recent killings linked by the public to the Shade, the signs of times leading to another Dark Year.
Their only hope lies with one History and Sociology Professor, who seems to be the only choice they have to know more about the lost legend of the city of Bastillio, the legend of the Star People and the Celestials.
The stakes are higher than ever as they prepare to meet with the professor under false names and disguises. They must learn all they can of the legend if it is the same one, and treat every single citizen they encounter as a potential cult spy, while also keeping their real identities and motives. If word gets out that the government is researching the supposedly, annihilated cult, then a Dark Year is sure to follow.
Welcome to The Fort - where folk horrors and eldritch terrors meet! The Fort is a town like a thousand other small and stubborn settlements, put where it doesn't belong in a land most unforgiving. There amongst the other townsfolk, live the LaPonte family. Mildred, and Mark - along with their 2 wonderful children. They live in a quaint house; modest and rundown, but very much a home filled with love.
But all in not well in The Fort....
Dark forces look in on the LaPonte Family, through the windows, standing at the edge of their property where their land meets the overgrown and wild edges of a persistent, and creeping wilderness.
Above, below, and beside are vast worlds of slumbering, malevolent creatures of existentially ambiguous origins, waiting to devour all.