THE SACRED COURSE CHRONICLES: ORPHA
“Let open the jaws which issue the words of creation…”
Soul of Mercury.
Awaken as I shake your cage.
Green Beast of the Earth, I entreat you with water and fire.
Shower my feet with the treasures, hidden deep within this sacred rock.
For here where courage and heroes dwell.
I reduce to nothing the chains that serve as your shell.
Green Lion, guide me along the Sacred Course.
Excerpt from Orpha: Volume 1.
A world of light and death, governed by an angel with all-seeing eyes.
By way of a perilous ritual, a young alchemist named Nicholas Aster finds himself in a world steeped with supernatural horrors. All the while, a great game is being played by twelve secret societies. A great game which involves the recreations of figures, past…A great game connected to the ring, suspended around the wide earth.
Separated into three parts, Orpha tells the story of a magician and his quest in bringing salvation to a world.
VOLUME ONE
ERIDA
Its name is the Celestial Circuit. Its instrument is the Sacred Course.
Upon being chosen by the Fifth House, the young alchemist Nicholas Aster finds himself on the Gothic world of Orpha. Here, for the sake of his alchemy, he tasks himself with traveling across it…in despite of its many horrors.
Along the way, he’ll require the aid from legendary figures such as Sinbad the Sailor and Robin Hood.
Obstructing his path is a fiery fortune-teller, carrying the designation…of the Agent of Love.
VOLUME TWO
THE BLACK CONTINENT
Its name is the Celestial Circuit. Its instrument is the Sacred Course.
Now saddled with a crew containing some of history’s greatest heroes, Nicholas Aster sails for the western end of the world. Between their ship and the main prize, are the ghosts and other ghouls, sent to stop them by the Ghost King.
Rome’s greatest general. The First Sword of the Round Table. The Slayer of the Gorgon.
With these warriors as part of his party, Nicholas aims to penetrate the very heart of the Black Continent, and return the Hollow Stone to Arynon.
VOLUME THREE
ARYNON
Its name is the Celestial Circuit. Its instrument is the Sacred Course.
A stinging betrayal. A dreadful loss. With these pangs stuck in their chests, the crew of the Duskstrider make a return trip to the Hallowed City. Undeterred, the young mage, Nicholas Aster sets himself on recovering the situation, and retrieving the Hollow Stone. The primary goal for Orpha’s Sacred Course.
Also present on the world of Orpha is the Order of the Scarlet Sanctuary. A cadre of Christian mystics, as well as his teacher’s former guild. Nicholas and his friends can do nothing but guess what their true aims are, as well as the aims of their Emissaries.
All the while, the Lapich Church’s crusade races over the continent of Arynon.
