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jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012
Lyner
Since: Sep, 2014

This is a book I read a long time ago. As I recall, the world started to sort of fade away. Everything became dimmer, and food and water lost all taste. I'm pretty sure there were monsters appearing, but I recall both the monsters and a number of people would repeat "Rantassas" something, which is supposed to mean "serve the Old Ones". Main characters are a woman and a man. The man has some sort of power to "shift" from one place to another. It turns out that these "Old Ones" are noncorporeal beings (I think they typically possessed people when they were on this side) trapped in another plane, and they're trying to get out, but to do so they need the help of a supernatural "Guide" and the power of that man, whom the Guide will possess to shift from our world to theirs and back, providing a path through which these beings can come to our world.