The Beginning of the End.

Good afternoon, citizens. There is no need to be alarmed. We are here to help.

Who exactly are we, you may ask? We are the Deicide Branch of an organisation known as the Supernatural Threat Analysis Bureau. You may know them as STAB.

Our branch, named after the Ancient humans who slew Gods, was only recently formed. It began when the person who is now Agent Umbra stumbled in to our base in the Thunder Bay-Rainy River district of Ontario, a part of our efforts to expand beyond the United States. He began screaming about how we needed to evacuate the city, as something terrible was about to occur. A look of Fear spread across his face as a tremor occurred, causing major structural damage to the facility. We ran outside only to discover a massive rift in the sky, a crack in reality itself, if you will.

STAB headquarters immediately contacted us over our communications relay, and asked if the reports were true. I confirmed their suspicions. The Quiet had manifested itself over my hometown. And just when we thought the end had come... It vanished. The crack sealed itself. People who had rushed out of their houses breathed a collective sigh of either relief or terror, and returned to whatever it was they were doing prior to this nearly-catastrophic event. It was as if they had completely forgotten it had happened. Most of them, anyways. The news teams are still investigating, the homeless are proclaiming that the Rapture is coming... But most people have either forgotten, or just do not care.

I for one will not take this lying down.

Umbra, myself, and all of the other personnel at the base contacted headquarters. We all came to a consensus- that something needed to be done. In the conversation that followed, Umbra presented a brilliant idea.

Create a branch entirely dedicated to destroying the Fears. When command enquired how we would do this, Umbra explained that, while being dead has fogged his memory (He'll explain this in his personal post. It's quite interesting, really.), he does recall having written down a method of gaining enough power to do essentially anything the wielder desired in a journal he once kept. Alas, this journal is now in the possession of a teenage runner named "Phobos". Until we find him, we have no leads.

Until then, I suppose there is nothing more to do than give an introduction for myself.

My name is Elijah Shepard, Commander in Chief of the STAB branch known as The Deicide.

And I will avenge my wife and sons.

I will personally escort every last Fear to the gates of Hell.