Lod the Galley Slave (Lost Civilizations) by Heppner Vaughn

Author:Heppner, Vaughn [Heppner, Vaughn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2014-02-13T00:00:00+00:00

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As the other slaves cowered and curled around the giant oars, clinging to them as the Gibborim screamed-chanted his evil, Lod’s lips writhed with a snarl and his blue eyes blazed. He knew that the necromancer opened forbidden gates. This Lord Lamassu used unholy deviltry and drew up into the world things better left hidden in the depths.

With all his being Lod loathed and hated the children of Yorgash. They were the offspring of those called First Born, themselves the product of a union between the daughters of men and the bene elohim, the “sons” of the Most High, fallen angels from Heaven who had taken on the guise of flesh in order to rule and wreck this world. At the very dawn of time Father Adam and Mother Eve had fallen to the seduction of Lucifer, and so humanity had been hurled from paradise. Fallen angels and their ilk ever plagued mankind, tempting, scheming, lying and cheating in order to draw humanity deeper into sin so they too would suffer in the fires of eternal Sheol. Not content with their deserved fate, the evil ones forever sought the destruction of others.

So Lod had long ago learned. But there had been a girl, a dark-haired beauty with a laughing mouth, a vivacious pretty with soft hands and eyes that had melted his frozen heart. He had wooed her in the days he had been captain of the Guard of Caphtor. He had been a bold swordsman, the greatest in the Nine Walled City. He had bidden her to become his wife, and he was certain that she would have agreed. But her father sickened, and she went to the Temple of Elohim, there to pray for his healing. He worsened and she grew bitter. The family was not of Caphtor, but from the eastern shores of the Suttung Sea to the north, from the city of Pildash. There men worshiped Gog the Oracle, a First Born son of Magog. Secretly, her father begged her go to Gog, to pay the First Born to gaze into his future and tell him if there was hope or if he must soon die.

One bitter night Lod’s beloved departed Caphtor in company with her father’s armed servants. She made it safely to the evil canal city in the Hanun Delta, and there she paid the priests of Gog and begged the Oracle for a way to lengthen her father’s life.

In the Temple of Gog she learned that this year her father would die…unless. Oh, the evil ones were cunning in their guile, using every artifice to trick and sway. Elohim was wicked, they claimed, His ways too harsh, obviously so if He took her father at such a young age.

Bit by bit, week by week, the priests initiated her into the Order of Gog and she learned that pain and cruelty were the prices for magical healing. Evil burrowed into her heart. She departed Shamgar, and months after her departure, she met Lod again in Nine Walled Caphtor.

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