In the hundreds of years since his return from Commorragh, Fabius Bile has estranged himself from friends and enemies, content only to watch the brutal evolution of his “new people”. But when his creations began to be threatened by monstrous haemonculi from the coven of the Thirteen Scars, Flayer had to look for new allies and old enemies in order to preserve everything he created. Homo Novus must survive... even if Fabius Bile must die to do so.