In days past, the Metatron enjoyed near-omnipotence, experiencing past, future and present as a single landscape in which to navigate. But when a future of insanity, cruelty and destruction already exists, what's to stop its influence bleeding backwards across time, infecting the root. Whether the Metatron became mad, was always mad or chose madness as the only sane escape from a life without freedom, the consquences remain the same.