THE FATE OF OUR UNION
Hildebrand Hermannson
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GENRE: Fantasy
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BLURB:
A
mountainous thundering bull breaks up battling tribesmen, summoning three
struggling youths, as an insidious unseen enemy turns tribes against
tribes—pitting rich against poor, sons against fathers, and men against gods.
Its insatiable hunger for division threatens to plunge mankind into a dystopian
realm ruled by man-eating wolves.
A
miraculous seven-headed horse, a symbol of unity, assembles the struggling
youths of extraordinary origin into a journey of self-discovery. There Sunu the
Saxon Poet, Rufus the Roman Stoic, and Keresaspa the Sarmatian Priestess must
overcome pride, aversion, and unforgiveness; there they must learn from
historical heroes, philosophers, and amazingly similar gods to battle the
unseen monster and its rising wolfmen.
Fated
to part ways to face the demons at home, Sunu, Rufus, and Keresaspa must
reunite as they bring divided peoples together to fight the source tearing
everyone apart. They must heed the divine wisdom of the seven-headed horse and
justly wield the seven magic weapons they’ve mysteriously been given to
overcome the unseen enemy and understand the higher purpose of the mountainous
thundering bull.
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Excerpt
Three:
Sunu the Saxon and Rufus the Roman meet Keresaspa the
Sarmatian (CH 7 of The Fate of Our Union).
Sunu and Rufus leaned in, beholding her sapphire blues—then
she punched them in the face.
The woman sprang forward from the mountain while they fell
backward onto brown pasture. As they stood up, she kicked back like a mad bull,
hitting their chests.
Fallen back to the pasture, Sunu and Rufus rolled on the
damp grass to face each other, then looked up at the woman to see her aiming an
arrow, a cloud above her brooding face.
“Scavengers!”
They rolled away from her rapid-fire, bronze heads nipping
at their skin. Sunu pulled a crimson arrow from his blood bull cloak and shot
up to his feet. He extended his right arm, catching a whizzing red shaft with
the Gauntlet of Truth and snapping it while whipping the Fetter of Awe with his
left hand, lassoing the woman by her waist.
She held out her bow as he yanked her his way.
Sunu grabbed his mace while she nocked an arrow. As her
skidding shins stopped near his bare feet, he batted the bow and arrow out of
her hands. Rufus confiscated her archery while Sunu seized her sword and aimed
it at her head.
She jerked back, nostrils flaring red, arcing her shoulders
to slide out of the Fetter only to feel it tightening further. “I’ll be no
man’s forced bride—not for the conqueror of hundreds or thousands or hundreds
of thousands!”
“Bride?” Sunu winced, glancing at Rufus as he ran to his
side. “I thought you had beauty, but I said no word of you being my bride.”
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Hildebrand Hengest Hermannson’s deep-rooted fire for Indo-European
culture and Western Philosophy ignites his first novel, The Fate of Our Union,
the inaugural piece in a planned series. His work draws inspiration from the
national epics The Saga of the Volsungs (Norse), Mahabharata (Indian), Aenid
(Roman), Odyssey (Greek), Táin Bó Cúailnge (Celtic), and Shahnameh (Iranian),
weaving these rich cultures into original stories featuring fantasy
world-building, dynamic characters, and intricate plots and themes. His Wild
Hunt of thought breathes life into his spiritual, ethical, and cultural
interests, inspiring us all to strive for imperishable virtue.
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Goodreads:
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Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CZS7TD5V?ref_=pe_93986420_775043100
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