Have you ever been so frustrated with humanity that you thought the world might be better off without them? So did the central character of this series, which blends science fiction into a fantasy dystopian future where the line between savior and genocidal madman is often hard to define.
In a post-apocalyptic future of his own making, the ageless scientist Valen emerges from his underground sanctuary for one of his bicentennial research and maintenance expeditions. Over the millennia since his deadly virus wiped out the vast majority of his fellow man, the mutated remnants of humanity have evolved into several distinctly different species; constantly at odds with each other.
On this outing, Valen strives to prevent history from repeating itself as the greedy subterranean albinos known as dwarves launch a campaign to seize power and subjugate their neighbors, starting with the peaceful vegetarian giants known as the tillers. Worried about anger, hatred, and violence working their way into the placid personalities of the tillers, Valen rushes to free the captive tiller families before their conscripted men are forced to fight for the dwarves. Gathering help from the child-like elves of the forest, the dark skinned fishers who live along the rivers, and the leonine herdsmen of the rolling planes, they begin scouring the continent for any sign of the captive tillers. If those ten foot tons of muscle were to embrace aggression, the other races would be unable to stand against them, effectively forcing Valen to resort to the type of extreme measures that he swore to never again revisit.
But can a genocidal madman ever find redemption, acceptance, or even love?
Have you ever been so frustrated with humanity that you thought the world might be better off without them? So did the central character of this series, which blends science fiction into a fantasy dystopian future where the line between savior and genocidal madman is often hard to define.
In a post-apocalyptic future of his own making, the ageless scientist Valen emerges from his underground sanctuary for one of his bicentennial research and maintenance expeditions. Over the millennia since his deadly virus wiped out the vast majority of his fellow man, the mutated remnants of humanity have evolved into several distinctly different species; constantly at odds with each other.
On this outing, Valen strives to prevent history from repeating itself as the greedy subterranean albinos known as dwarves launch a campaign to seize power and subjugate their neighbors, starting with the peaceful vegetarian giants known as the tillers. Worried about anger, hatred, and violence working their way into the placid personalities of the tillers, Valen rushes to free the captive tiller families before their conscripted men are forced to fight for the dwarves. Gathering help from the child-like elves of the forest, the dark skinned fishers who live along the rivers, and the leonine herdsmen of the rolling planes, they begin scouring the continent for any sign of the captive tillers. If those ten foot tons of muscle were to embrace aggression, the other races would be unable to stand against them, effectively forcing Valen to resort to the type of extreme measures that he swore to never again revisit.
But can a genocidal madman ever find redemption, acceptance, or even love?
