For most of the Nineteenth Century, the Kurians reacquainted themselves with the Earth and the weaknesses of their prospective fodder. Wherever war and chaos allowed them to do their work unnoticed, the Kurians and their cloaked Reapers harvested what necromantic energy was available from the fire and slaughter.

The agents of the Kurians stirred up trouble in India, the Belgian Congo, and the Philippines. Thanks to the American Civil War, a doorway was established in Virginia, strategically close to Washington DC. In 1914 their investment in Balkans paid great dividends. In the slaughter and confusion enough vital aura was collected to open a door in Europe's Alps. An Austrian corporal was recruited with promises of unlimited power, and a Soviet secret service agent received the advice and tools necessary to rise to a position commanding the gulags. China and Southeast Asia seemed rich fields for vital auras, thanks to the fecundity of the inhabitants in those regions and the contentions between the Japanese and the mainlanders.

Under the swastika design last used by the Aryans in 1500 BC, six years of mechanized death begat a number of new doors in Russia, the Balkans, China and Japan. Nanking, Leningrad, Babi Yar, Dresden, Auschwitz, Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were all causes for immense satisfaction.

The second half of the century did not quite live up to the promise of the first, but the Kurians took opportunities in Cambodia and Africa where they could find them. At the Millennium, as humanity celebrated, the Kurians patiently drew their final plans. Economic chaos arrived, throwing the entire world into depression, and Kur began to mobilize. When they were ready to march, they sent world to their agents and quislings in the world's capitals: prepare the way for the Overthrow.

When the Earth convulsed in the spring of 2022 in a series of devastating worldwide earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, not a few thought God's final judgement was beginning. They could not have been more wrong....