Foreword of From Chaos Born
With the release of the next In Her Name novel, From Chaos Born, now only a few weeks away, I wanted to give you a clearer idea of what the story's about.
Herewith is the draft of the foreword, which is intended to do just that…
While this book is certainly part of the In Her Name series, it represents something a bit different from the previously published books. Those volumes speak to the war between the human race and the ancient Kreelan Empire, telling the tale of the century-long conflict between the two civilizations and that conflict's eventual resolution.
With From Chaos Born, we're about to turn back the clock roughly one hundred thousand years, focusing our attention on the Kreelan Homeworld and its handful of interstellar Settlements. There are no humans in this story: here on Earth, Neanderthals walked among our ancient homo sapiens ancestors, and stone-tipped spears were still a rather novel invention.
The Kreelan race, by contrast, was already ancient, the rise and fall of countless civilizations dating back a further four hundred thousand years, divided into four distinct Ages. A balance of power emerged among the seven ancient martial orders, the priesthoods, that allowed a race uniquely tailored for war to survive against itself. They were born, lived, and died in a path of life, the Way, that was defined and taught by the warrior priests and priestesses.
But they no longer worshipped the ancient gods, for those had been cast aside after a great cataclysm at the end of the Second Age that took their race to the very edge of extinction. In the bloody equilibrium that was at last achieved after that devastation, war, largely kept at a primitive level, meant life, even as it brought death.
It was a time of chaos without end.
But in what later would be determined as the singular event that would bring to a close the Fourth Age and herald the beginning of the Fifth, a girl child was born to the master of a great city and his consort. The child was unlike any other who had ever lived, for instead of black hair and black talons, her hair was white as pure snow, and her talons, the long and sharp nails at the ends of her fingers, were a fiery crimson.
Her name was Keel-Tath, and she was destined to unite her race and found an empire that would, at its height, span ten thousand suns across the galaxy.
From Chaos Born is her story. But it is only the beginning…
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