The Horn and the Star (ePub)

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, and sometimes fantasy is more real than reality. The Horn and the Star is a three volume novel that contemplates the mystery of our times in a fantasy opera.

The Dorians have taken over the civil world, the known world, using their religion, Staljhinism as a banner for conquest, and in times of merriment and peace, practice of Staljhinism fades out and becomes a relic of a dying era. And now the Dorians have crowned themselves as the greatest power in the world, and no power in the world can dethrone them.

In the meanwhile, the other nations aren't entirely settled after having been conquered and Doria has to figure out how to maintain peace throughout their new empire.

Prince Velpis of Doria does not have an ounce of Staljhinism faith in him, but he is a man of civic ideals and political ambitions, looking to bring the empire to prosperity; and while he's been slowly been bequeathed rulership over Doria by his aging father, King Hectar, he's begun to materialize some of those ideas by challenging the Staljhin religion and any other religions and wanting to extract from them and from other cultural traditions that which has purpose.

Prince Velpis is not alone as many others also consider that the united empire is seeming like a better idea as the days pass, and who better for the job?

And so a new struggle begins to emerge as the people of the kingdom wrestle between living for the joys and splendours of this world and living for abstract things like virtue and honour.

But enter Vontaro, a denizen in Doria, unlike the others, who is linked to sorcery, and also linked to the woman Velpis courts, Segisa, and linked to many other accusations from his friends and from those that don't know him. He is either teetering on madness or he sees what no one else sees and hears what no one else hears.

The Dorians do not like the unknown, mystery, and especially situations that aren't entirely under their control. Unfortunately, Doria's princess, Ophinia, has questions in which can't be answered within the confines of the castle, the town, or the crater plains, and so one night she meets with the mysterious Vontaro through their mutual acquaintance with Segisa.

And now that Prince Velpis is getting married to the beautiful physician, Segisa, Prince Velpis' ideals are on a collision course with those whom defend those invisible ideas, namely that mysterious 'sorcerer' named Vontaro.