They were never meant to meet.
They were never meant to survive.
And the god who watches the night is tired of waiting.
 
Across fractured timelines and haunted cities, shadows deepen. The jaguar walks again.
 
Tezcatlipoca—the Smoking Mirror, god of chaos, war, and night—has returned. Not as myth. Not as symbol. But as rupture. His obsidian heart beats beneath Chicago’s cracked streets, feeding on conflict, fear, and forgotten bloodlines. The Fifth Sun is ending. And he plans to become the first and final god of a new age.
 
Reality itself begins to fold.
 
Children speak in dead languages. Buildings vanish mid-blink. The stars realign above Bronzeville. And in alleyways, the wind smells like hearts burning on stone altars.
 
But fate is not without resistance.
The Spider, hunted and hunted again, emerges from the margins with a creed and a vengeance.
Jenny Everywhere, the multiversal Shifter, knows this pattern—she’s seen gods fall and timelines collapse.
Dorian Gray, still flawless, still damned, has her own score to settle—and beauty to weaponize.
C. Auguste Dupin, mind sharp as razors, begins to see through Tezcatlipoca’s patterns of madness.
Black Terror, strong enough to stop a train, must face a truth he buried long ago in blood and fire.
Allan Quatermain, gunrunner and mogul, may be the only one who knows where the final piece is buried.
Lemuel Gulliver, whose maps never lie, finds a path into the Smoking Mirror’s labyrinth.
And somewhere deep in the red-lit shadows, a reluctant spellcrafter—Lovecraft, the Black One—awakens old incantations meant to stay buried.
 
Together, they weren’t summoned.
 
They collided.
 
Each marked. Each broken.
 
Each carrying something Tezcatlipoca didn’t see coming: choice.
 
But the god of transformation doesn’t fear heroes.
 
He feeds on them.
 
And when the Fifth Sun dies, only one thing will remain—
 
The Spider’s Snare.