Flame of Evil
2 primary works
Book 1
From humble origins as tribal nomads in an area to the east of the Black Sea, the Mosul Empire has ascended to power through bloody hunger for conquest. Spurred on by the brutal theocracy of the Zhaithan, they worship, with fundamental cruelty, the ancient and baleful twin deities Ignir and Aksura. Forming an unholy alliance with the Teutons in the North and the Mameluke warlords in North Africa, the empire subjugated the Land of the Franks, and all of the Hispanic Peninsula, and have now set their sights on the New World. They have already brought down the Republic, of Greater Carolina and the Virginia Freestate. Only the Kingdom of Albany, controlling what would be New York, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut, still stands, aided by the Norse Alliance. Argo Weaver, Huck Finn in a ruthlessly vicious world, comes from the back hills of East Virginia. Cordelia Bakeney, Scarlet O'Hara in a trench coat, is a Lady at the Court of Albany. Raphael Vega, part Goya, part Zorro, conscripted as grunt cannon-fodder, is a native of decimated Hispania. Jessamine, a Destiny's Child gone to hell, is the concubine of a Teuton colonel.
Together, they will form the Four and battle the Mosul's ultimate creation, the Dark Things, battlefield horrors with hideous and paranormal powers. The Four are aided by Yancey Slide, a strange man with many of the characteristics of Coyote, the Trickster.
Together, they will form the Four and battle the Mosul's ultimate creation, the Dark Things, battlefield horrors with hideous and paranormal powers. The Four are aided by Yancey Slide, a strange man with many of the characteristics of Coyote, the Trickster.
Book 2
"Conflagration" continues the story, begun in "Kindling, of The Four", which alone can challenge the invading might of the Mosul, a ravening horde directed by a fanatical priesthood who can control other world beings and use them as weapons of war. The Kingdom of Albany fights a decisive battle to take back the Virginia Freestate, infantry and cavalry clashing on the ground while The Four wage their own war on the supernatural plane.