Claire sat down next to Rob. “Do you really think it’s over?”
“The Seven might be down,” he sighed, “but the Heptobscurantum is probably larger than we could ever know.”
Claire nodded. She’d seen that to be true during her month on the run.
“But it will certainly take them a long time to recover. Possibly years or more, I would suspect,” he concluded. “If even one of the high ranking Heptobscurantum escaped the destruction, they will eventually re-emerge.”
“The Prime will certainly rise from the ashes,” Jackie said, she had explained to Claire already how she and Rob had helped the resistance turn the tides against the vyrm before they came to her rescue. “Wulftone certainly seems like a very capable overseer for the reconstruction efforts.”
Claire caught the twinkle in her friend’s eyes when she said his name. She grinned at her. Leave it to Jackie to fall for a guy from another dimension. The irony of that thought wasn’t lost on her. “I’m glad to hear that he escaped. I didn’t think anyone could make it out of that place alive!”
She tried to deflect her thoughts away from the inter-dimensional love connections that seemed to revolve around her. “There’s also Basilisk, although he doesn’t seem to be chomping at the bit to free Sh’logath. And Vivian… Caivev, I mean. She’s still out there.”
“But I will always be right here to protect you,” Rob said, laying a hand gently upon the side of her face, careful not to touch the long line of stitches that ran from chin to cheekbone.
Claire ignored the dull pain and leaned against him. She decided that not thinking about her feelings wouldn’t help.
Claire took his hand and intertwined her fingers with his. Her heart fluttered and all her emotions urged her to kiss him. She awkwardly brushed a stray stand of hair from her face, instead, unsure of taking quite so bold a step.
“We should get out of here,” she tried to grapple with her heart’s impulses. She wanted to be certain that she was not feeling Bithia’s emotions—it had to be real: her recent track record with love had made her reluctant in that area. It would take some time to sort through it. “Let’s go find my father and the professor. They are going to want to meet you.”
She locked eyes with Rob and in that moment knew that the intense love she felt for him was hers and not Bithia’s. Bithia loved him deeply, truly. But these new feelings she had for Rob were entirely her own.
The Architect King – the Creator God. He is currently in stone form, trapped within Basilisk’s stronghold at Limbus until some prophesied day.
The Black – common, lowest Caste of the species. Also called blackborn.
Chamber of Mysteries – an impenetrable vault where the arcane artifacts collected by the Royal Family are kept; also home to the Tesseract.
Desolation – a realm of the multiverse; formerly known as Edenya before the Syzygyc War ravaged the landscape.
Dimensional Inversion Pendant – a mysterious artifact made from darquematter; it alters the link between a Prime and his or her variants.
Dunnischkte - a religious ritual to gain a hybrid status between vyrm and human.
Dunnischktet – someone who has completed the Dunnischkte; he or she gains nigh immortality and the ability to shift between hybrid, vyrm, and human forms.
Frostmancer – tarkhūn with special abilities including ice/cold control.
Grimmorium Nitthogr – a journal kept by the fallen Veritas cleric Nitthogr; it is an arcane work that is the culmination of all the sorcery he learned in his earlier years before Sh’logath taught him even deeper and viler magics.
Guardian Corps – royal guards tasked with protecting the royal line and also the chamber of mysteries; some corpsmen decide to join the Veritas, a secretive monastic order drawn from their numbers.
Heptobscurantum – human branch of the vyrm’s cult of Sh’logath.
Lich – tarkhūn with psychic abilities; they are always identified at a young age and pressed into service of the Sh’logath cult.
Limbus – the home to Basilisk, the recognized leader of the Tarkhūn, and the capital of Desolation.
Multiverse – thirty-three connected dimensions that can be travelled via pathways that open up based upon the astral alignment/calendar.
Plains of Neggath - region in Desolation where the Sh’logath cult birthed the great Agod; the area is a veritable wasteland and often the home of Rovers.
The Prime – the main realm of the multiverse: the ultimate reality. It also refers to a person who lives within this realm; each Prime has dimensional copies living on the different realms of the multiverse.
Pyromancer – tarkhūn with special abilities including fire generation and manipulation.
Rovers – unaligned vyrm tribes. They are typically either Seekers of Maetha or Followers of Krakkath, two different theologies that some vyrm adhere to.
The Seven – illuminati-like ruling council of the Heprobscurantum.
Shade – tarkhūn with extreme camouflaging ability; some have even gained the ability to completely shapeshift their forms.
Sh’logath – the Devourer, Nega-God, Agod of Destruction, the Reality Eater… all are names to describe the terror that lurks on the verge of reality.
Straruck – the Holy city in the Neggath region; it has holy significance to the vyrm (their religions kind of Mecca).
The Syzygyc War – the war that waged many years between the Prime and Desolation as they sought to awaken Shlogath; it was prevented by the Architect King.
Tarkhūn – high caste of vyrm that once ruled their race before a schism led by Nitthogr long ago. They are a rarer, but stronger breed. Some, who resemble member of The Black, have developed additional powers.
Tesseract – a gem created by the Architect King; it is the key to all power in reality and the embodiment of the multiverse.
Thousand Elder’s Sacrifice – the sacrificial torpor they entered into in order to make Sh’logath real in a ceremony they called the Birthing.
TRX718 – a high powered blaster pistol.
Voice of the Thousand Elders – the chief Cleric of the Vyrm’s Thousand Elders. He stayed alive and died of old age, although his spirit remains disembodied and tied to the Thousand Elders will.
Vyrm – reptilian humanoid race whose home realm is known as the Desolation.
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Three years after a sorcerer’s failed attempt to awaken an ancient evil, Claire Jones channels the Prime spirit and has become the rightful heir to the throne of the Architect King. Peace seems to have returned to the multiverse, but when a traitor forms a dark pact with the trickster demigod Akko Soggathoth, malevolent forces again destabilize reality. If Claire and her friends cannot stop a new cults’ foul rituals, the ravenous nega-god may yet find entry into our world—but journeying through the Darque dimension to stop it might cost Claire her very mind.
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Dekker’s Dozen: The Last Watchmen
Why Your Pastor Left
John: In the John
Wolves of the Tesseract: Taking of the Prime
Wolves of the Tesseract: Wolf of the Tesseract
Wolves of the Tesseract: Through the Darque Gates of Koth
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