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The year 536 is often called the beginning of the “worst year to be alive”—an environmental catastrophe triggered by massive volcanic eruptions. These eruptions darkened the skies, disrupted crops, and ushered in a cold, famine-stricken decade across much of the known world. In Merovingian Gaul, these years of blight, war, and societal upheaval were felt most acutely by the peasantry, who survived in the shadows of fading Roman infrastructure and rising noble power.
Against this backdrop, Goodman imagines how fear, grief, and hunger can become fertile ground for the literal and morally monstrous. The story explores how ordinary people endure the extraordinary, and how the old gods and new faiths offer equally uncertain refuge when the world begins to starve.
The Goodman story is a bit of an experimental aside. Transparently, I read the Witcher series and thought, “This would be cool…with Jinn.” Then I started to think about how America’s War on Terror has so many echoes of the past. A continuation of the East vs. West that dates through the middle ages and into antiquity. I’m not committing to anything, in a literary sense, but I did want to reach back into history and layer the jinn into a time and place that was far away from Cop Najil. I hope you enjoy.
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The Story continues in The Horrors of War series.
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