February
16, 2012: Blackdog
Long ago, in the days of the first kings in the north,
there were seven devils... And long ago, in the days of the first
kings in the north, the seven devils, who had deceived and possessed
seven of the greatest wizards of the world, were defeated and bound
with the help of the Old Great Gods... And perhaps some of the devils
are free in the world, and perhaps some are working to free themselves
still... In a land where gods walk on the hills and goddesses rise
from river, lake, and spring, the caravan-guard Holla-Sayan, escaping
the bloody conquest of a lakeside town, stops to help an abandoned
child and a dying dog. The girl, though, is the incarnation of Attalissa,
goddess of Lissavakail, and the dog a shape-changing guardian spirit
whose origins have been forgotten. Possessed and nearly driven mad
by the Blackdog, Holla-Sayan flees to the desert road, taking the
powerless avatar with him. Necromancy, treachery, massacres, rebellions,
and gods dead or lost or mad, follow hard on the their heels. But
it is Attalissa herself who may be the Blackdog's—and Holla-Sayan's—doom.
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Last Month's Title:
Farmer
in the Sky
January
19, 2012
Next Month's Title
by
Douglas
A, Anderson
March
15, 2012
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