Introduction: An unadventurous scholar blessed with all the powers of a flashlight must learn to contend with the living weapons abandoned by his vanished gods. Not that he knows what a flashlight is, but if he did, he would present a compelling argument for his own superiority.Roughly 300 years after a world-shattering Bronze Age apocalypse, two of humanity鈥檚 scattered populations have begun to reestablish contact. The unexpected survival of an emigrant between their realms opens possibilities that neither side had entertained and poses questions no one is prepared to answer.Now the scholar and his enigmatic sponsor must unravel these tangled implications before another power can take the matter from their hands.Slow-burn, Ancient Greek high fantasy with subtle cosmic horror....