The Bleikovat Event - The Cairns of Sainctuarie
Author: Hawk MacKinney
Genre: Science Fiction
Publisher: Sage Words Publishing
Book Description:
Among the
close-kin clans of western rural Malfesian Murians, farming and gelf ranches
are long held traditions. Times are
good…full barns, fat gelf calves and large families thrive among the sprawling
grain fields and hamlets and the river from which they derive their name—the
Feldon. Word comes with the trade
caravans that times are not so good in the regions far to the east of the
Feldon River: tumultuous changes stir
among the remote province of Bleikovia.
Old timer Feldovats shrug it off as one more squabble between clans over
boundaries or water rights…too distant to affect the Feldovats.
The
western clans learn too late, however, it is no local squabble. Outnumbered and unprepared, Feldovats resist a
hoard bent on plunder and conquest. Days
of battle along the Feldon River stain the riverbanks in green Murian blood. In the finals days of exhausted fighting,
Judikar Klarvko Celo, leader of the Clan Klarvkon and the Feldovats, is fatally
stabbed with the slow-acting sevon poison.
The Judikar’s consort, Etikaa Klarvkaa, becomes Regentkaa, and with
Celovat Field Commander Korvo Celo serving as her advisor, she leads the
demoralized Feldovat survivors on a gruesome ill-prepared winter trek through
high mountain passes of ice and blizzard snow in an attempt to elude the Green
Dragon forces of the Bleikovats.
Etkaa’s
only son, Klarvko Celo II, helps spirit Feldovat young across a remote mountain
exodus to the west toward Eedov Province. The battered, starving Feldovats
reach the Malfesian coast at Eedov City only to be confronted with their
implacable enemy determined to destroy the remaining Klarvkon rabble. Taking passage on crowded lumbering
Maalonovion freighters, Feldovats and Malfesian refugees set sail. On arrival in Maalon City they are welcomed
among their Maalon hosts, and settle into a new life.
But famine
and a pandemic pestilence stir old hates and nurse former ambitions. The enraged Overseers of Bleikovia move
against the Klarvkons, this time bringing bloodshed to Maalonovia. The exiles from the Feldon must fight once
again, but starvation and plague across the Planete Myr make it a different war
from the battles along the Feldon…a na’ä blikovat…the Bleikovvat Phenomenon…an
event with unexpected consequences and outcomes none could have foreseen.
Before the
vendetta killing is exhausted, the Regentkaa Klarvkaa and her son are swept
onto the Maalon throne, setting the Klarvkon Dynasty and the Murians toward an
intergalactic golden age, and a star-flung destiny the once-agrarian Feldovats
could never have envisaged.
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