One year after the incident at Whitechurch. Cain Madhouse leads a band of Incarnates, and rouses disgruntled citizens to a rebel nation called New Patria. Schaal returns to Rivulet Woods to pay her respects to her father’s grave. A new military unit whose sole mission is to wipe out the remaining Incarnates hunts for Hank, who has gone to ground while on his own mission to put his former Incarnate subordinate to peace.