Grigori, one of the oldest members of the Cult of the Abhorrent, has a puppet master anomaly, using soul threads to manipulate objects and people as a ventriloquist would manipulate a puppet. Such an anomaly was for the most part unheard of in the Empire of Calarus. Anomaly users such as Grigori were shunned by normal humans for fear of the demonic qualities they had. Facing certain doom at the hands of Emperor Vokin, can Grigori and his companions survive the Imperial Onslaught?