false 427252 6 The cosmos was once ruled by Thoth, who administered the different forces in the universe to keep things in balance. In time, he delegated this administration to his other godlike beings, "angels", who were each in charge of different "stations" or forces. Such stations included the House of the Dead, the House of Life, the House of Fire & so on. At some point, Thoth awakened a dormant, malevolent force on a distant planet. This dark force, called the Thing That Cries In The Night, is so powerfully malevolent that it nearly obliterated Thoth's wife & threatens to consume the galaxy. Thoth works to contain & destroy the creature, & in so doing, neglects his duties in maintaining the cosmos. The Angels become rebellious & use the power vacuum to fight amongst themselves for dominance. Thoth's son Set, who thru a temporal anomaly is also his father, fights the creature across a devastated planet. Just as Set is about to destroy the creature, he is attacked by the Angel Osiris, who unleashes the Hammer That Smashes Suns, a powerful weapon that nearly kills Set & the creature. Thoth's brother, Typhon, who was helping Set in the battle, vanishes without a trace & is presumed dead. (Typhon appears as a black horse-shadow, without a horse to cast it. He contains within himself something called Skagganauk Abyss, resembling a black hole, not a term in common use at the time.) The Thing That Cries In The Night survived the blast, & so Thoth, who has meanwhile been utterly overthrown by his Angels, has no choice but to contain the dark force until he can find a way to destroy it. He also revives the personality of his wife & keeps her safe on a special world known only to him, where the seas are above the atmosphere, not below them. He also scatters Set's weapons & armor across the Universe for safekeeping in the event that Set can be found. Having been overthrown, he is now dubbed The Prince Who Was A Thousand by all in the Universe. Some of the surviving Angels either hide among the peoples of the Universe as mysterious immortals, but others like Osiris & Anubis take over the House of Life & the House of Death, respectively. Other stations are abandoned. Osiris & Anubis are the only two powers in the Universe now. Osiris cultivates life where he can. Anubis works to destroy it. Plenty & famine, proliferation & plague, overpopulation & annihilation, alternate in the Worlds of Life between the two Stations, much to the detriment of their inhabitants. 2548393 book 1969 Creatures of Light and Darkness total:423|5:133|4:173|3:100|2:14|1:3| 423 1688 528 18 427252 0380011220 9780380011223 418 18 3.99 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/427252.Creatures_of_Light_and_Darkness 5 6 false Sat Sep 19 04:50:46 -0700 2009 Wed Dec 19 03:17:21 -0800 2007 Sat Sep 19 04:50:46 -0700 2009 5
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