<em>Many almost wished they could say the multiverse had been thrown into chaos. It had been thousands of times before- at least they knew what to do then.<br/><br/>But the spreading of order? In a way, it proved almost more terrifying. Hell was expanding rapidly in influence, and Crystal Sphere after Crystal Sphere falls to the legions. Before, in the face of hordes, an organized strike force could always take out or at least stop the influence that held them together. But the legions? They proved more organized than the most organized of mortal strike forces. With Celestia bound by the Compact, there was no way to stop them. Even alliances of demons and eladrins, tenuous as an alliance can be and still be called an alliance.<br/><br/>And everything's going to Hell, crushed in the face of Perdition. Few respites remain. Few places where the godlike Lords of the Nine and their dread minions the Dukes of Hell cannot reach.<br/><br/>Sigil is one. And it is where our tale begins, as a force dark and potent gathers to face an evil yet greater...</em>