Perceptions, book 1: The Potentate

In a world where history unfolded differently, where Christianity never came to be and where gods and spirits walk alongside man, where the word “science” applies not only to technology but also to the arts of the Espers, the followers of the old ways will find themselves pitted against the martyrs of the new. Oedipus, Captain of the Mycenaean guard, finds himself standing at the epicenter of the worst war seen in over four decades. Horus is an Egyptian, one of the lucky few who escaped with his life when the Adepts destroyed his country. Mea is a poor country girl who ran away from home to seek Espers in faraway lands. And then there is Cassandra, a young Esper and student to the eldest living member of the Larakan race. According to the ill begotten prophecies of a meddlesome old man, she is their last hope for salvation. But she is a mediocre student at best. In the last days of the Reclamation Age, an ancient race will refuse to fall.