Hinom

Synopsis

In the brutal deserts of Hinom, where Sheol ceases to be a path and becomes hunger, Salomé leads Acad to a world that receives no messiah: He tests them, He hurts them or devors them. Far from Nod, far from the Ash World and far from the imperial lie, the son of the stolen seed enters Neomenoch territory, among rival tribes that have deformed their faith for centuries of thirst, war and blood. Some venerate old remains of holy discipline. Others mix prayer with dark invocations to the Khaos Aspects. There are slaves, hunters, ritual anthropolophenes, salt priestesses and patriarchs who do not bow to any child pointed out by rumors. Acad isn't received as elected. He's been received as flesh. To survive, you will have to learn that power isn't proclaiming itself: it's tipped from dust, pain, well and enemy. Under the fierce look of Salomé and against the pride of a tribe that doesn't kneel, the boy begins to form with warriors that despise him, hunters that measure his resistance and priestesses that speak a broken religious tongue, made from Neomenoch remains, hunger and superstition. Each blow shows him something. Each insult tightens it. Each wound removes him a little more from his childhood that he's never had. But Salomé soon finds out that she's no longer the only one capable of shaping them. Kharod of the Seven Cycles, a tribal patriarch and master of war, sees at Acad something different from a prophecy: He sees unfinished matter. He puts him to his tests, forcing him to lose, to look after his defeat, to understand that survival isn't enough as others start following your words. To Salomé, that's necessary and dangerous. Because every teacher Acad accepts is a hand that enters into a territory that once belonged only to her. And then Tanit appears. Warrior Princess of a rival, fierce, proud, fanatic and armed tribe with a black spear, Tanit doesn't believe in Acad. He considers him an alien manipulated by his mother, an impostor with a sign, a dangerous lie born to put his knees on his knees. His encounter is neither sweet nor clear: his challenge, blood, religious clash and political fight. Tanit hurts him, measures him and hates him precisely because he cannot at all deny him. When the purple light once again shattering the stone and doubt enters where once there was only contempt, something changes forever. The kingdoms aren't born in Hinom. They rot first under the sand. The sixth book from The War of the Mil Thrones tells about Acad's entrance into the territory that will once again be the root of the Domination: a world of wild tribes, bloody rites, impossible alliances and faith deformed by survival. Salome wanted to raise a holy weapon against the Hegemon, but at Hinom she understands that every weapon, if it lives sufficiently, begins to choose its own hands. Acad's stopped running. Now you have to learn to be devoured.