107. Storm Rider –

Something very, very bad is afoot. – and for all the reasons you’ve enumerated here. People don’t want to see it, don’t want to believe it, and don’t want to even acknowledge that it exists. What exactly is it that we’re talking about? It’s the rise of those who crave absolute power for no other reason save that of wielding it. It is a drug, an addiction, a geas, an appetite that we can scarcely comprehend. They are monsters, all of them. And virtually no one wants to even admit the possibility their existence, their intentions and the horror that they will without a doubt perpetrate.
They will be quite content to live in a world lit only by fire, ruling from atop a stinking pile of rubble and corpses as long as they think that THEY will be the ones doing so. Millions of us dead. The rest of us in chains. That’s their goal, their vision, their unholy cause.

There will be only one way to stop them.