The All-Seer
In Medieval Renaissance Eurasia, Baldric the foresighted Greenwood Sorcerer, on his travels to the Orient, joins with the exotic witch Zamina who seeks to restore peaceful alliances within the lands of Transoxiana and cure the spreading of the noxious Maerren plague.
Sparked by strange events, Baldric then embarks on a perilous and spiritual quest to the mystical lost world of Shamballah to find a unique cosmic element.
In an alternate world set in 1220 AD...
During the medieval renaissance in a dystopian era where the theocratic Christian Church in Rome and the pious Franks of the Carolingian Empire (the Kingdom of France and the Holy Roman Empire) rule the Western world and actively suppress heresy and paganism throughout Europe, and the Eastern world is divided by civil war with the Crusaders and the Saracens and the threat of the Mongol invasions.
At the same time, a strange and inexplicably infectious pandemic disease is spreading, the Maerren Plague, a noxious energy blight which emanates from the biological life cycle whenever the world's ecological balance is abused.
Magic is losing its power; songs are being forgotten; people and animals are sickening to death or going aggressively mad; plant life is withering away and unleashing toxic fumes; irregular weather patterns appear creating storms and evaporating seas, and the conscious spirit of the "Earth Mother" is slowly being drained of its vital force essence and losing the will to live.
Obdoria (Salekhard) a town in YaNAO, Russia.
Baldric
The green glow of his magic aura and the mark of power in his palms das Auge des Drachenfeuers (the Eye of Dragon Fire) are why he is called "the All-Seer"
The red aura of the deadly Maerren Plague
Characters and Creatures
Baldric
Zamina, the legendary Oriental witch and Baldric’s teacher
Najih
Odgerel, human form
Odgerel, wolf form
Doge Petruccio, Zianian Italian knight and the Doge (leader and judge) of Venice, and one of the leading figures of the main company in the story
Madame Ulhicun, the deadly Jurchen concubine and favourite mistress of Jin Dynasty Emperor and both spy and assassin of the ominous criminal insurgents Bailianjiao (White Lotus Society)
Ahemes, the superficial and calculating Egyptian Coptic Christian Mystic and Archdeaconess of Alexandria, and rival of Zamina
Wei-Min
Ganzorig the Marauder
Hashashin
Kelaieno the Harpy-Crone, a physical avatar of the Cerxi-Seqozi
Uruvasi the Swan-Maiden, a physical avatar of the Cerxi-Seqozi
Hiegeh the Griffin-Mother, a physical avatar of the Cerxi-Seqozi
Berke, a wicked undead Mongol sorcerer-werewolf, and Odgerel’s twin who created an immortality curse to bring forth the plague
Izikaa, human form
Mikko, human form
Phtelewks, human form
Aydar, the alpha-stallion of the Belukha Yaryonds (Turkic Centaurs)
Ayaz Ata, the Turkic god of the frost and snow associated with winter season
Mara, the Germanic and worldly demon goddess of nightmares and temptations
Ostara, the Germanic fertility goddess and spirit of Easter and autumn season
Asgaerdr, the Queen and Vola (Seeress) of the Skogvaettir (Dryad-race of Landvaettir (Germanic Nature Spirits)
Freyja, the Norse Vanir (nature gods) goddess of love, fertility, war and death
Sabazois, the ancient Phrygian & Thracian sky god of storms & horsemen, also known as Zeus by the Greeks and Thor by the Norse
Thor, Norse god of thunder and prince of the Aesir (war gods)
Perigors Jourabchi, a successful but ruthless Radhanite merchant prince, black market fence, broker and usurer who a gambling and opium den across Europe, Africa and Asia
Jamet de Troyes, an self-righteous and piously ruthless French Count of Champagne and Grand Marshall of the Templars and one of the antagonists of the antagonists of the first two of the saga
Oxytheus Palaeologus, a Byzantine aristocrat, historian and offical statesman diplomat who journeys with the company
Peg Leg Tom
Mikko
Kol, the black lynx-like-wildcat and Baldric’s familiar spirit
Ma-Cybele & Ma-Rhea, the original mother goddess and conscious spirit of Earth, corrupted by the Maerren Plague
Cerxi-Seqoiz, a trio of omen cosmic entities and embodiments of the Summer Triangle Constellations
The Elephantine Triad, the golem-avatars of the ancient Egyptian bovine trio gods (Khnum, Satis and Anuket)
Xures-Kan, one of the most vicious, bloodthirsty and powerful Yelbeghens (Turkic hydra/ogre behemoth-like monster) and the overlord of the Sogdian fortress Umitildi-Munara
Taraneth, matriarch of the Shirdals (Persian Griffins)
Esmira, matriarch of the Tepegoz (Asian Cyclops)
Phtelewks, an prehistoric panther-lynx and the god of the Indo-European werecat-witches
Izikaa, animal form
Izikaa the Firefox (true forms), the embodiment of Big Dipper/Ursa Major constellation and the spirit-god of the Maerren Plague
Ishraq, the Hinn (a Pre-Adamite type of Early Jinn in Arabic lore they tend to appears as dogs or other animals) of Nijah
Veles
Indrik
Erkin Anca
Bahamut
Prehistoric crystal beasts of power
Bronzite Bear
Quartz Lion
Golden Bull (Calf)
Carnelian Ram
Argonite Wolf
