Roland, a veteran warlock and god killer embarks on a mission with the hunter vanguard Cayde-6 to investigate a mysterious signal aboard a station in Ceres' Orbit. The Cocytus. They find themselves in a new world full of people with strange powers and prospering unlike anything they have ever seen.

Almost every time period has a beginning see as how a lost guardian tries creates his own Era as he find himself a new purpose as he tries to lead a people to usher in their own Golden Age.