The War of the Well

Synopsis

Hinom is no longer a shelter. It's a battlefield. Under its sands, an old Exo metal sanctuary awakens to Acad and responds to its blood with a flare that no one had ever seen before. It is not the ancestral green of the Sael lineage. It is not the blue of the Kheb, nor the red of the Stirpe, nor the white of the Exodites. It's purple. Unique. New. The proof that Salome had been waiting for years. Acad is Virya, but not the restoration of a lost past. It was something that did not exist before: the result of two separate lineage for millennia, a human possibility capable of questioning the decline of the Nimrod and the clone empire that rules from Nod. Salome immediately understands what it means. And act. While Acad tries to discover what it is without becoming what others need it to be, his mother quietly bases the first Salomites: women ready to teach, fight, spy, seduce, remember and terrorize. A religious and political network built around the Virya, La Purity and a new reading of the Khaos Aspects. A machinery designed not only to support Acad, but to survive even his death. Tanit observes how that network starts closing around the man he once wanted to prove impostor. But you can't hate it with the same ease. Because among them violence has ceased to be only violence. Then Hinom burns. The wells are poisoned. Caravans d they're coming. The Pastors of the Milibula, the Devorers and the rival clans turn the desert into a war of spears, knives, beasts and thirst. The routes are closing. The old pacts are broken. Exo metal fragments become strategic loot and each water tank is worth more than a hundred lives. In that primitive and brutal war, Acad ceased to be only the son of Salome. Start sending. His fragmented presscience anticipates ambushes that have not yet occurred. His presence alters the beasts of war. His decisions save men who were already dead in futures that only he has seen. And every victory he gets in the dust is transformed by Salome into doctrine. But the greatest danger is not in what Acad can do. He's in what others start to believe he can do. Because the men who used to call him a foreigner begin to consult their decisions. The tribes that never kneel begin to listen. And Tanit, caught in her father's blood, the spear of her people and an attraction that she can no longer hide, discovers that fighting Acad can be much easier than deciding how far she is willing to follow him. * * The War of the Well * * marks the moment when the fugitive is no longer a prey. He hasn't got a crown yet. There is still no Dominion. But in Hinom something much more dangerous than a kingdom begins to be born: a faith, a machine, an army not yet nomb re, And a man around whom everyone starts to have to decide their next war. The War of the Thousand Thrones continues. And the thrones of the Eternum still don't know what just woke up under the sands.