A secret long buried brought to light, only to be hushed from record. At the dawn of devastation made manifest befalling the earth, and the dusk of a fragile peace, a candle flame defiantly dancing alone in the all-consuming darkness then rising to an unstoppable inferno. Long after the survivors abandoned their broken home, thirteen new worlds pulled society back from the grasp of extinction. Yet in their prosperity, they forgot that they once stood for. In a superhuman society that all but worships strength while discarding weakness, one boy was born not merely weak but powerless. Branded a Normallion, a giftless Tau, Athreus is reminded every day of what he lacks. But he refuses to accept the plans made for him. Today, he will prove that the name Tau does not mean weakness.