A Role-Playing Game of Swords, Sorcery, and Weird Fantasy

You will never find your way. You are lost. Such are the hauntings of Eos Bellator, trapped in the North American Sector desert by a never-ending sandstorm. The government forces the orphan siblings, Eos and Maxima, to harvest their Soul Energy, providing power for the Sector. Beyond the sands lies a tattered world being vied for by many forces. Yet, the biggest threat to Eos is not having control over his emotion-driven abilities. When fear overwhelms him, disaster strikes, and the siblings are separated. They learn that they are not alone. The Mitad, an off-world organization of similarly super-powered members, is attempting to capture them. The government has them cornered. A crazed prisoner seems to hold the answers. So begins a journey of high-powered, dangerous adventure. Eos and Maxima's search for freedom and the truth about their past leads them to pursue a mysterious world they never knew existed-Hyperborea.

Follows the extraordinary record of ancient Greek thought on Hyperborea as a case study of cosmography and anthropological philology.

In Greek mythology, Hyperboreans were a tribe who lived far to Greece's north. Contained in what has come down to us of Greek literary tradition are texts that identify the Hyperboreans with the Celts, or Hyperborean lands with Celtic ones. This groundbreaking book studies the texts that make or imply this identification, and provides reasons why some ancient Greek authors identified a mythical people with an actual one. Timothy P. Bridgman demonstrates not only that these authors mythologize history, but that they used the traditional Greek parallel mythical world to interpret history throughout ancient Greek culture, thought and literature.

Cosmography is defined here as the rhetoric of cosmology: the art of composing worlds. The mirage of Hyperborea, which played a substantial role in Greek religion and culture throughout Antiquity, offers a remarkable window into the practice of composing and reading worlds. This book follows Hyperborea across genres and centuries, both as an exploration of the extraordinary record of Greek thought on that further North and as a case study of ancient cosmography and the anthropological philology that tracks ancient cosmography. Trajectories through the many forms of Greek thought on Hyperborea shed light on key aspects of the cosmography of cult and the cosmography of literature. The philology of worlds pursued in this book ranges from Archaic hymns to Hellenistic and Imperial reconfigurations of Hyperborea. A thousand years of cosmography is thus surveyed through the rewritings of one idea. This is a book on the art of reading worlds slowly.

You are still not worthy. Not ready. Show me how strong you really are.Eos and Maxima have returned to their homeland-Hyperborea. However, their reception reveals that all is not well in the homeworld, and ill omens plague their arrival.Nations are on the brink of war, undercover allies have gone silent, and the Mitad's influence grows. The siblings are faced with a new adventure-but the stakes are higher than they were on Earth. Compelled on a journey through the Winter Aisle, they must evade creatures made of pure Soul Energy, investigate unnatural disturbances in the Sepeleo Mountains, and consult a mystic priestess for guidance. Amidst it all, Eos just wants to prove himself to his long-lost parents, but the specter of his curse mark looms. Attempting to understand the Mitad's plans and Eos' curse reveals that they have a lot to learn before they earn the right to be called, Soul Wielders.