Thread:Saris Khan/@comment-1493741-20121230053520

It is harder to avoid spoilers than I thought, but I did it. I think.

Anyway, the story starts in 890 AD with Yamamoto having called a Captain's Council to discuss a string of recent disappearances in the Rukongai as well as the Human World. Souls are there one moment, and the next they're gone, no signs of Hollows or anything else having caused them to disappear, they're just completely gone. During the meeting a Hollow enters the Seireitei and reaches the First Division barracks unharmed to meet with the gathered Captains.

The Hollow attempts to warn them that an army is growing in Hueco Mundo, but Yamamoto instead attempts to incinerate him with Ryūjin Jakka. Emerging unscathed, the Hollow takes the attack as dismissal and leaves through a Garganta. When the Captains ask what the plan is, Yamamoto tells them to return to their duties, ignoring the few words the Hollow had spoken.

Cut to eight years later, Frithigern, a young Shinigami who shot through the ranks ascends to Captain of the Tenth Division. Just two days following that a series of Kumon and Garganta open up all across Soul Society, the Human World, and even within the Dangai, Hollows pour out in the hundreds of thousands and began massacring everything they can find. The Gotei 13, caught unprepared are forced into a delayed reaction but are quick to respond with their full might. The entirety of five Divisions are sent to the Human World, the Second Division is sent to secure the Dangai and the rest head for the Rukongai Districts.

While they don't know who is leading the Hollows, the goal is obvious to discern. Their enemy seeks to destroy the balance, which would collapse the universe. 