What Ba Chim's spy tells you about Il Tasi'in Il Tasi'in, a thick-walled town of 3000, is the seat of power for one of the the most isolated of the borderland satrapies of the Scarlet Sultanate. Located on the east coast just after the shoreline turns south, it is a bare 60 miles from the Xobi, the cold rocky southern desert in the Weird. The town which is dominated by the two raised quartz-dome hills called the Teats of Manat was formerly called Manawat and was deeply associated with the worship of that chthonic goddess (who is said to have ruled over fate itself and “sapped the self-will and value of Men”). The ruling satrap is like other borderlands satraps both a highly-positioned courtier and necromancer, an important role in the maintenance of the undead-worked plantation system (more about Industrial Necromancy in a blog post). Ul-Namihirra is generally considered to be a deeply incompetent in both his expected roles but survives politically by his ability to shift...
(Enrique Alcatena)
ReplyDeleteIs this his version of Celestials?
ReplyDeleteMichael Moscrip i haven't read the issue but this is what the guy who posted it says
ReplyDelete"Issues 5 and 6 contain a 2-part story by Ian Edinton and Alcatena; a story that is very good, but very unlike anything that Robert Howard would have come up with. Replete with fallen gods, alchemists, zombies, strange science, flying ships and wandering warrior-priestesses, it's way closer to a Michael Moorcock novel than anything else. But hey, let's just enjoy it for what it is. On its own terms, this is a very entertaining story.
The plot revolves around the fall from the sky of a god who's just lost some kind of celestial battle. (Gee, isn't this mag just full of fallen dark gods)? This one could be a Celestial if they had been designed by Philippe Druillet instead of Jack Kirby."