 Charon secretly engineered the device to impart him with incredible god-like power, even as the rest of the human race ascended to a higher form themselves.The transition also sent the pair into another universe, which came to be known as the Negation; Charon took command of this universe, building it into a massive intergalactic empire, and imprisoning the slightly less powerful Appolyon.After meeting Appolyon, several of the characters from the "Negation" title travel to Han-Jin, the world depicted in "Brath", "Way of the Rat" and "The Path".