Many other players are pulled into the Holy War for their own ends, creating a complex interplay of politics, religion and personal vandettas with Shimeh at it’s center. When the spiritual leader of the Thousand Temples declares a Holy War to retake the city of Shimeh an agent of the Mandate discovers possible evidence of Consult involvement behind the war and sets out to uncover the conspiracy. But the Consult haven’t been seen in over 1000 years, and the Mandate’s quest is viewed as a joke by the other factions. Only the Mandate, a school of magi whose members dream every night of their founder’s struggles and death during the Apocalypse, stand apart from the earthly concerns of the other factions and instead hunt for the Consult, the minions of the No-God who they believe are trying to bring about a Second Apocalypse. The Three Seas are now ruled by factions of wizards, warriors and priests who fight among themselves in wars covert, barbaric and Holy. 2000 years ago the incredibly metal-sounding First Apocalypse ravaged the land, loosing armies of OrcsSranc and bowel-shredding pestilence and other assorted nastiness on the planet. The world of Earwig Eärwa is in something of a bad state. Second, this isn’t really going to be a proper review, partially because a proper review would go something like “it could have been good but it’s not, don’t fucking read it” and partially because I don’t think it deserves that much effort on my part. It may very well be that every criticism I’m about to lob at this book is shown to be misguided in the pages I skipped, but I very much doubt it. No, I don’t want to read your gritty faux-biblical fantasy historical novel any more”. I got about three quarters in before saying “No, R. I’m going to admit a few things up front here.įirst, I didn’t finish The Darkness That Comes Before.
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