On the day of the 67th Gommage, engineer Gustave bids farewell to his former lover, Sophie, who has turned 33 and perishes alongside everyone else of the same age. With only a year left to live, Gustave joins Expedition 33 in hopes of slaying the Paintress.
Aloy half a year after the events of the Zero Dawn, a young huntress of the Nora tribe sent on a quest to a mysterious frontier spanning Utah to the Pacific coast to find the source of a mysterious plague that kills all it infects.
Set in 9th-century Baghdad during the Islamic Golden Age—in particular during the Anarchy at Samarra—the story follows Basim Ibn Ishaq, a street thief who joins the Hidden Ones to fight for peace and liberty, against the Order of the Ancients, who desire peace through control.