The horsemen's attack was unexpected and efficient. Deus in a shambolic state of disarray and internal power struggle very far from the organization of the 1999 years did not see it coming. The assault on the island was brutal, efficient and devastating and the call to retreat into the human world was handed down. Now the hunters find themselves scattered throughout the human world without means of communication with their peers. The world itself is under constant assault by the forces of the four clans and has, as a result become aware of presence of FEAR creatures in their midst.

Hunters find themselves subject to being hunted by the four clans themselves - and the Halloween creatures enlisted to their cause, allowed to roam without the limitation of passport or boogeymen, while also being sought after by the normal human populace who see them as the last vestige of hope they possess. The upper ranks of Deus who were not killed in the initial siege have also vanished underground and no one can be certain what H and the hunters who went with him have planned for the future. Hunters retain their weapons and bonded but often must keep both a secret unless provoked.

A new dark age has descended on the human race and the hunters are very firmly the hunted.