Brandon Rospond – författare

Blood drenches the sands of the Wild West as the promise of a new age dies, screaming its last breath into an uncaring night. An ancient evil has arisen in the western territories, calling countless people with a siren song of technology and promises of power and glory the likes of which the world has never known. Forces move into the deserts, some answering the call, others desperate to destroy the evil before it can end all life on Earth.

This is the universe of the Seventh Age of Humanity and the setting for the game called Beyond the Gates of Antares. Travel through Antarean dimensional gateways to the galaxy spanning empires of the PanHuman Concord and Isorian Senatex, and to the myriad worlds of the Determinate and beyond. Board the glittering space borne cities of the Vardari, the great mercantile powers of Antarean space, and confront foes as implacable as the Ghar and as merciless as the Renegade NuHu Shards.

The first novel in a series by first-time author Brandon Rospond takes classic elements of sword and sorcery and puts a new twist on it in a world where everything is run by crystal-magic. A young man seeks answers about the death of his parents and a legacy he inherited that grants him great power if he can learn how to control harness it.

Amidst the backdrop of Eastern Europe in the year 1500, an earthquake releases factions of the Eldar Gods and Slavic Deities who have battled millenniums for the control of humanity. On the cross-roads of empires, political and military forces compete for control of a town which contains great treasure and power for those who are willing to take it. Teutonic Knights, Polish and Lithuanian soldiers, Cossacks, Hanseatic Merchants, Templars, Tartars and Imperial spies battle each other on behalf of their own ends. This anthology of short stories brings some of the newest and best in high fantasy to start off this new world of adventure.

An anthology of 10 stories set in the Gates of Antares Universe