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1. COUERANNA'S CURSE: "Baltic Nightmares"
Freya's the golden-haired Volsung Summoning Child. Only newly become 17, she's been diagnosed as suffering from a terminal cancer. Her mother, Hulga Faust always Volsung, knows of her condition. Also knows she's carrying Count Molech's child. Count Molech, the stage name of Etzel Sangati, the Melanchlaeni Magician, was supposed to turn himself into a vampire, then turn Freya into one just as she was delivering his son. Won't happen now. Count Molech never got a chance to turn himself. He was killed in Rome two weeks earlier, on the 14th of January 1938. Barsine's among the members of the Galvin-Shekmet party who were lost in Africa toward the end of December 1937. Besides her grey baby's likely incurable illness and no longer wanted pregnancy, that's something else that really annoys Horrid Hulga, as she's sometimes known. The Galvin-Shekmet party, which she partially funded, was in Africa, in the northeast corner of the Congo, searching for Cleopatra's Bath, the legendary Spring of Life or Fountain of Youth. She's pushing 60 and hates getting old. Medea Annulis, though, has offered her another solution, a dip in Aeson's Bath (from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'). Hulga's not convinced Medea has all the ingredients. She's also not sure she wants to meet Medea's price. Forcing Freya to marry Medea's scatter-brained son, Apsyrtus, a Summoning Child like her Valfreja, seems too much to expect. Freya and Hulga are staying at the von Alptraum estate on the Baltic Sea coast of Prussia. One of Hulga's two other daughters, Freya's much older half-sister Berchta, is married to the Baron Tyrtod von Alptraum ('von Alp'). Berchta is on Charan's Ark, the setting for some of the most important action found in 'Helioddity'. She's with her daughter by von Alp, Brunhild, the bronze-haired Volsung Summoning Child, and Sigurd, ostensibly Berchta's 7-year old son by Donar Lancz. (There's some suggestion Sigurd is actually Count Molech's son from a hundred moons earlier. The argument mitigating against that notion is Berchta didn't die having him.) Von Alp, an industrialist specializing in aerostatics (dirigibles and such like) is in Hamburg, where Hulga usually lives. Lancz, a higher-up in the Gestapo, someone reputedly close to Adolph Hitler, as is Hulga, lives in Berlin. Hulga's other daughter, Astrid, born Faust, now von Blut, always Volsung, is also temporarily staying at the von Alptraum's estate. Her daughter, by Tyrtod von Blut, an officer in the German military and as such a veteran of the Spanish Civil War (one of Generalissimo Franco's German 'advisers'), is the silver-haired Volsung Summoning Child. Her name is Tanith. She, too, is on the Ark and, like her identically aged 'aunt', Valfreja, may be carrying Count Molech's child. Staying with Hulga, Astrid and Freya at the estate are the three Annulises: Medea, Summoning son Apsyrtus and her husband, his father, Jason. Doc Jay is a world renowned surgeon. He still has a faint hope of being able to cut out Freya's cancer. A very faint hope. One of those staying there with the Annulises is Ramona 'Ray' Avar, 9, whose parents are still Rome. (Medea's slightly older sister, Ray's Mama Mata, born Sangati, become Avar, apparently attempted suicide on the Thirteenth and father Zygion Avar, who has relatives, including a sister, Rethra nee Avar Schroff, among the Germans associated with Hulga and the von Alptraums, has stayed behind to attend to Mata while she recuperates, assuming she does.) Mata and Medea are gypsies. Their mother was the long dead Rhea, nee Ararat, become (Mrs Azrael) Sangati, who may have been Magister Joseph Mandam's sister. M+M's older sister was Olympias, born Sangati, become Kinesis, but always Ararat, who was last seen during the Simultaneous Summonings of 1920. Olympias was the mother of Megaera ('Hellion Grudge') now Zeross and Alexandros Kinesis (the Sorcerer's Apprentice, the Mithraic Persian, its Earth Magician), both of whom will be along as 'Coueranna's Curse' continues. Zygion is a now-impoverished Hungarian nobleman whereas Doc Jay is an Armenian who generally lives in Corinth, Greece. The other person staying on the von Alptraum estate with the Annulises is Laodice Atreides. Yet another Summoning Child, Lao considers herself a Cretan, not a Greek. Her job is to look after Ray. Apsyrtus is in love with Lao, not with Freya. Unfortunately Lao is leaning toward Mesmer Hent, a Dutch-born Summoning Child she first met a couple of years before on Crete, which was when and where Mesmer's parents were killed caving. Now as good as an adopted von Alptraum, he too is staying on the estate with the Volsungs. Perhaps significantly everyone calls where they're staying Castle Nightmare. There's a few others staying here as well. One
is a misshapen, gnome-like hunchback by the name of Moses Callion. He's
way older than even Hulga. Two of Hush and Callion's secrets are boys.
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2. COUERANNA'S CURSE: "Double Trickster Trouble"To review ... Apsyrtus Annulis loves Laodice Atreides but she professes to prefer Mesmer Hent? Right, that's one love triangle. All three are 17-year old Summoning Children? So's Valfreja Volsung, Hulga's by far the youngest of three daughters. Her grey baby, the one that's both pregnant and dying of cancer? So far so good. Of the two Medea Annulises Joli Blon saw, the cockatrice demon was the real Medea? Call her Ophiomedea. While the faceless devil was actually possessing Cybele St Synne? That'd be Strife, Kore-Eris, Kore-Discord. However, it's Cybele as Medea, -- not Ophiomedea as Medea --, who loves Medea's actual husband, Jason Annulis? Doc Jay, yes. Who's Apsyrtus's father and Valfreja Volsung's surgeon? That's the other love triangle. Except the real Medea, Ophiomedea, probably only loves herself. And earthborn demons hate skyborn devils? Have done since long before the Great Flood of Genesis. So they fight? That's this time up, Kore-Two. So, what else happens this time up? Well, first of all, there's the matter of the overall title of this here opus: 'Coueranna's Curse'. You'll have heard of myrionymous Kore. Myrionymous just means 'many names'. But Kore is also many devils, all of whom were once one. One is Kore-Eris, Strife or Discord, -- she's the skinny, red-skinned faceless devil possessing Cybele St Synne when devil and demon fight. Another is Divine Coueranna herself. She's stuck in a prison pod, a Hellstone, concealed between-space, that Lao's mother Clymene, Mystery Might, gave her before letting Laodice go to Rome at the beginning of the month. Cybele would much prefer having Kore-Concord possess her than Kore-Discord. As for the latter, Faceless Strife, she'd much prefer not having to possess anyone. She wants a body of her own and for a devil to have a body of its own they first have to have a Brainrock talisman, aka a devic power focus. Recall the Northern Tantalus, the Mithraic Treasury containing the goods and glories of Aesgardian gods and goddesses? Goods and glories, they're devic talismans. When last we saw it, in 'Helioddity', the supposedly magically sealed Tantalus turned out to be full of a kid's toys hidden by a glamour. Prevailing wisdom has it that its original contents are now concealed between-space by none other than our old, very youngish, pal from both 'The Moloch Manoeuvres' and Kore-One. That'd be Hush Mannering, Jolene Callion, Joli Blon. She's the female trickster, Young Life. Kore-Two's title refers to two tricksters? So it does. Number Two'd be Hush's Gush (the Voodoo Child, Aug the Dog, the male trickster, Augustus Nauroz, Auguste Moirnoir, Young Death to her Young Life, has also been an apparent seven year old for something like seventeen years). He was working for Sedon St Synne, who's now on Charan's Ark, which is currently winding its way through the Red Sea toward Mogadishu, in Italian Somaliland. Sed-son's with the Horny Ghost, the Celestial Spook, a featured character in both 'Manoeuvres' and 'Helioddity'. In life known as both Celeste Mannering and Celestine D'Angelo, the Celestial Superior, she's occupying Berchta nee Faust von Alptraum, always Volsung, when he, Young Death, re-enters the Heliodyssey series of novels in Kore-Two. Re-enters, be forewarned, in his usual gruesome manner.
Except, and this must be stated early on in 'Curse', it turns out Gush's Hush was so traumatized by seeing the two Medea Annulises in Kore-1 she shocked herself into being just a regular 7-year old child. Unless she was that all along of course. Which she wasn't? Not in 'The Moloch Manoeuvres' anyhow. But that was then. This is 'Coueranna's Curse'. Speaking of which? Precisely. The fight between the devil and the demon, it gets resolved. In the process of which guess which three 17-year olds staying at Castle Nightmare realize their Summoning Heritage. Here's a hint. None of them are named Valfreja Volsung. Here's the rest of it:
And after that, at the risk of repeating myself, things can only get weirder. The main reason for that is because, before demon (Medea Annulis, the Ophiomedea Cockatrice) fought devil (Cybele St Synne, the Strife-possessed, overweight, two-toned redhead with different coloured eyeballs), they followed Jolene Callion through Shadowland to Moses Callion's underground laboratory beneath or beyond Castle Nightmare.
Which would be ideal for Hulga Faust always Volsung, who would dearly love being young and golden-gorgeous again, just like Valfreja. After all, as you will recall, Horrid Hulga helped fund the Galvin-Shekmet party searching for Cleopatra's Bath (the Stream of Life or Fountain of Youth) and, in 'Manoeuvres', actually entertained the notion of enduring Aeson's Bath. Ideal if Kore-Eris had a body, that is. Which she, aka Strife, Discord, doesn't. Doesn't have a devic talisman or she would have. At least she reckons she would, though that could be wishful thinking on her part. Hers, Strife's, was the Golden Apple of Discord, in case you haven't read your Greek Myths re the Judgement of Paris and Helen of Troy. Unfortunately for her, it, along with her daemonic body, was destroyed when she fled to freedom on the Outer Earth (by swimming through a Brainrock lava lake), in order to escape the Moloch Sedon's wrath, after the failure of Thrygragos Mithras's Crimson Conspiracy coming up to 2000 years earlier. Presumably Kore-Concord still has hers, however. It's a little green, Brainrock apple. And she, Divine Coueranna, definitely has a body. Laodice's! Top of Page |
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3. COUERANNA'S CURSE: "Glowing Gonads"There's action on no less than 4 fronts this time up, in Kore-Three: (1) Charan's Ark; (2) Hamburg, Germany; (3) the Black Sea estate of the Family von Alptraum; and (4) near Edinburgh, Scotland. On Charan's Ark, which is now steaming through the Red Sea toward Italian Somaliland, the Celestial Spook, aka the Horny Ghost (what's left of Celestine D'Angelo out here, Celeste Mannering on the Head), has been busy redacting the memories of everyone aboard. What follows immediately is the version of events depicted towards the end of 'Helioddity' that, thanks to Cel-Spook, most everyone now believes is what really happened. The speaker is Tanith von Blut, the silver-haired Volsung. She's speaking to Jesus Mandam, Magister Mandam's only son. (Barsine Mandam, the potential vampire mentioned at the beginning of Kore-One is supposed to be his twin sister; certainly, even though they don't look at all alike, they were brought up as twins.)
Jesse doesn't buy it. He still thinks he died and rose from the dead three days later. Whereupon Tanith has an epiphany, recalls what really happened and as good as confirms that he did indeed die and rise from the dead three days later. Whereupon the Celestial Spook finally gets around to taking over Tanith (you can tell by the rainbow eyes) and speculates some more, to Jess, re whatever did happen to him. Could have been a number of things, she tells him. Also tells him that the titular Glowing Gonads refer to Old Joe's soul-sinks. (Which we knew from 'Helioddity' anyhow.) Seems she's at the Magister's mercy. Seems Jesse's at her mercy. Seems Tanith's back to being Tanith before Cel-Spook can go all Horny Ghost on her, in her. Which annoys Jesse no end. Which is also why he takes to wearing sunglasses. (Cel-Spook doesn't just body bounce to folks of her own sex.) ******** Next stop is Hamburg, Germany. Turns out, appearances deceiving, as they often are what with so many wizards and witches abounding on the Outer Earth these days, Old Joe did not fly there. Rather, he did not fly there via a series of airplanes, like everyone else in his entourage did. Old Joe, in case you've forgotten, is Magister Joseph Mandam. We first encountered him, at least to a major degree, in the last chapter of 'Helioddity'. Aka the Mithraic Magus, he's Jesse and Barsine's father of record. [Even if they weren't twins, they were definitely born on the same day, December 25, 1920.]
For all intents and purposes, at least for all intents and purposes at the beginning of 'Coueranna's Curse', old Joe's taken charge of proceedings. He's the one who left Cel-Spook to her tasks on the Ark. He's also the one who sent a different band of brave hearts to Scotland (as we'll get to momentarily). He's brought quite the group of individuals with him to Hamburg. Not all of them are supranormals; a few are Trinondev Warriors of Weir. Their leader is Golgotha Nauroz. He's a clone. There are some other, very much younger, clones in Germany. We've met them already. Furthermore, we're to understand they were cloned by the same method. The other thing about Golgotha is that the Magister refers to him as his Heliodromus (sun-runner, messenger to the gods). We've met a couple of other Heliodromuses previously. One was a devil (Djinn-Ghoster); the other was Agenor Heliopolis, the leader of the Black Rose of Anarchism and the presumed father-to-be of the Male Entity, Heliosophos (Helios called Sophos the Wise, who's been going by Ulysses Heliopolis since 1909 and who, some believe, was shot to death, his 11th, by Agenor on Aegean Trigon). A Heliodromus is the next to top rung of the Mithrant Brotherhood. The top rung is the Pope or Patrum. Guess who's playing pope? The Mithrants' actual pope, as it happens. Seems another word for the Mithraic pope is Magister. Although the Magister and his entourage came to Hamburg to mend Mithrant fences, the Trinondevs have a more pressing issue. They want ==> ******** Which brings us to Laodice Atreides, the object of so many people's desire. Truth told Lao doesn't appear this chapter. Neither does Hush Mannering, not even as Joli Blon. Hush's Gush does, though. So does one other, the same one other whose appearance at the end of Odd-15 ( which served as both Helioddity's epilogue and the prelude to 'Coueranna's Curse'). More on him momentarily. First, to review again, Apsyrtus Annulis and Mesmer Hent fancy her, Lao, because she's so bright and darkly beautiful. Not to mention more than just slightly dangerous. Old Joe and the Trinondevs fancy whom they presume she has stuck in a prison pod, a Hellstone, concealed between-space. So does Cybele St Synne. The difference being the Trinondevs want to trade the prison pod containing Kore-Concord to Cruel Platoon, the Bull of Mithras, in order to get him to release their Master, Kyprian Somata, on Apple Isle. By contrast Cybele, Sedon St Synne's daughter, an overweight, though she prefers voluptuous, ever-ambitious, two-toned redhead, wants to take over the very same Kore-Coueranna so she can supplant the Bull and once again rule Ap Isle. Through Cybele, it should be made clear. Strife (Marut Kanin, Kore-Eris, Kore-Discord) would like her power focus, Divine Coueranna's Tvasitar Talisman, the Little Green Apple of Eternal Youth, so-called because it never ripens. Strife believes, howsoever rightly or wrongly, it will lead to her regaining a physical form. There are other power focuses where Lao's staying, the von Alptraum's Baltic Sea estate, in what was then Prussia. They're contained in the Northern Tantalus, that of Aesgard. Prevailing wisdom has it Hush has hidden them, with or without the Northern Tantalus itself, somewhere only she knows between-space. Appreciating where she is, and knowing what power lies within them, Cybele has had her father send in an expert to help retrieve them. This would be Hush's Gush (Aug the Dog, the male trickster, Augustus Nauroz, Auguste Moirnoir, Young Death to her Young Life). Augie quickly determines Hush is still Joli Blon, has just gone into some kind of funk such that she's wholly a little girl again, not some devil-devolved, demon-dusted, faerie fart who's been looking like a little girl for something like seventeen years. (Exactly the same amount of time he, Aug the Dog, has been Young Death to her Young Life, curiously enough.) What's far more significant, plot-wise, than the entertaining converse he and Cybele have, is who Cybele appears to be. It isn't Medea Annulis anymore. (We're to understand the real Medea, Ophiomedea, has reclaimed her identity and is back to bagging it with Doc Jay, her oft-estranged husband, Freya's surgeon, Jason Annulis.) It's Hulga Faust always Volsung. And where's the real Horrid Hulga? Might this help? (The first person speaking is Hush's Gush. The second person is Cybele St Synne, masquerading as the Volsung matriarch.)
All which necessitates another memory-booting lynx. (Our memory-boosting, put better, given there are at least two central characters in the PHANTACEA Mythos named Memory: Human Memory {Mnemosyne D'Angelo}and Humanized Memory {Miracle Memory}, as well as Machine-Memory {the Mnemosyne Machine, aka the Female Entity}.) ******** Final stop prior to returning to Castle Nightmare, and that him I promised to get to momentarily, is Scotland, where may be faeries and definitely is the Family Dre'Ath, including the 4 Skullians (Homer, Mycroft, Jubal and Gregory, all of whom were born to Angus Dre'Ath by different mothers, none of whom were Gilda nee O'Ryan, Elaine, Sean, Nathan and Maxwell's mother, on December 25, 1920). May be more than faeries actually. May prove, flashing back to 'The Moloch Manoeuvres', Megaera nee Kinesis Zeross wasn't misnamed after all. Her given name is the same as one of the three Female Furies [the 'Eumenides' {a euphemistic name meaning, in Greek, 'the kind ones'}or the 'Erinyes' {their correct and most common name, meaning 'the angry ones'}]. Four-fingered Meg's given name means 'Grudge'.
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******** And why would Unholy Abaddon, a devic suicide you'll no doubt recall from PREGAME-Gambit, want the Northern Treasury? To give it, its contents if the physical Tantalus was shattered by the Bright Face Garuda on Charan's Ark in Odd-11, to the likes of Donar Lancz and his Hermiones, last seen in 'The Moloch Manoeuvres', of course. In order to spread Chaos! Top of Page |
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4. COUERANNA'S CURSE: "Scattered Brains"Kore-4 is a chatty chapter. Much of the chat is with respect to events that took place near the end of 'The Moloch Manoeuvres'. (Is 4-fingered Meg entirely off-base when it comes to Nathan Dre'Ath?) Some of it's about what went on in Kore-2. (Just where did Cousin Scatterbrain scatter those brains anyhow?). There's also a fair bit of yap as to why this series of novels is called 'Heliodyssey'. (Are the Dual Entities still out there, despite what happened to them in Odd-14?) Oh yes, all this talking takes place on the North Sea Hospice of the Family Dre'Ath, not far from Edinburgh. Oddly enough one of the persons doing the talking can't talk. (Hey, this is PHANTACEA.)
A highly significant BLOCKQUOTE that. Breaking it down, one can get a sense of this chapter's significant events. First of all, Freya and Cybele, as herself, got themselves away from Castle Nightmare. Got themselves through the Weird from the Baltic Sea coast to the North Sea coast. Did so, we're to understand, via Kore's intercession. This Kore, we're to also understand, would be Kore-Concord (our titular Divine Coueranna, she with the curse), not Kore-Discord (Strife). Ergo, either Freya or Cybele got hold of the prison pod Laodice Atreides has been carrying around between-space; got, therefore, Kore inside one or the other of them. Except, upon arrival at the North Sea hospice, a Trinondev captured Kore in his prison pod. Hence Memory wondering if she'd got away from the Trinondevs. That Mycroft 'Mickey' Skullian, a deaf-mute, brought Helios's message to Memory, and used Max's voice, tells you something of what's happening to the 4 Skullians since the return of their youngest half-brother, Maxwell 'Max' Dre'Ath (Magus Maxius) to Scotland. Max, the master of all the tellies, as he described himself when he called himself Telemax and hooked up with the Sorority of Sausages in the revised version of 'The Moloch Manoeuvres', is making the blind see (Homer) and the deaf both hear and speak (Mycroft). As for what's he's working on with the other two, Jubal, who's so leg-crippled he's confined to a wheelchair, and Gregory, who's a simple-minded near-giant, guess what?, we'll have to wait for a later chapter to find that out. We aren't so sure how Helios managed to use Mickey to pass on his message to Memory, however. Max, who appears to be a incurable quadriplegic now, denies it was his doing. Questions have also been raised to whether the Kore one of the Trinondevs imprisoned was indeed Kore-Concord (Divine Coueranna) and not Kore-Discord (Strife). Once again we'll have to wait for later chapters to find out the reality of these matters. We'll also have to wait to find out, Mickey's message to the contrary, whether the Dual Entities are still around. Can tell you how the chapter ends, though
So, are we about to get confirmation of what long-time readers of the various serials I've been mounting on PHANTACEA on the Web since 1996 have been suspecting for most of that time? That Human Memory (Mnemosyne D'Angelo) and Humanized Memory (Miracle Memory) are effectively one and the same? Guess what?
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5. COUERANNA'S CURSE: "Young Death and Uncle Abe Chaos"Kore-5 is not so much a chatty chapter, like Kore-4, as one filled mostly with back-story. As one might expect, given its title, most of the back-stories feature our two titular characters: Hush's Gush (the Voodoo Child, Aug the Dog, the male trickster, Augustus Nauroz, Auguste Moirnoir, Young Death to Hush's Young Life, who like her has been an apparent seven year old for something like seventeen years) and Unholy Abaddon (one of Thrygragos Lazareme's three firstborn, the former, and only ever, Unity of Chaos, whom most everyone still calls Chaos but whom Young Death calls Uncle Abe just because he feels like it). All sorts of tasty tidbits pop up during the course of these back-stories. For instance, what's the connection between old Joe, Magister Joseph Mandam (Loxus Abraham Ryne's much older brother-in-law, Jesse and Barsine's father of record) and Eden Nightingale (Mrs Abe Ryne, the mother of the twins, David and Saul, 10, as well as Aranyani, 4)? Are they related? Are their real names Akbar and Meroudys Artha? Are they really faeries? Is Dand Tariqartha, the Devalord of Sub-Cranial Temporis, their half-father? (Afraid the best I can do in terms of answers to these questions are Young Death thinks so whereas Uncle Abe Chaos thinks it's at least conceivable.)
What's the connection between Young Death and Sigurd Lancz? Well, the boy isn't exactly dead. Rather, he's what the male trickster calls one of his reclamation projects. (We're to gather Jervis Murray is one as well.) In other words, as we already know from 'The Moloch Manoeuvres', Sigurd was stillborn. Yet, somehow or other, he, Young Death, provided him, Sigurd, with the spark of life that's kept him going ever since. (Young Death, by the way, homes in on his reclamation projects much the same as he does the animals folks like Cybele, in Kore-3, and her father, Sedon St Synne, in Manoeuvres, sacrifice without much in the way of mumbo-jumbo in order to summon him. Despite his sometimes graphic way of homing into them, then out of them, he does them no harm doing so. The blood and gore, that's his; hence Hush's Gush.)
He also still has his Brainrock talisman, a huge trident that serves the double purpose of sheathing his Chaos Blade. Which, by only partially withdrawing it, was how he managed to cathonize his breed-brother, Lord Yajur, the Unity of Order, at the end of PREGAME. (Unless you have or want to order 'The Trigregos Gambit' on disc, you'll have to trust me on this. For some reason I didn't explicitly mention it happening in my original synopsis of Trig-4.) Is there more? There's stacks of more; too much more for synoptic purposes. Here' a few more of them. Going back to the 'Guess What?' at the end of Kore-4's synopsis, here's an interesting BLOCKQUOTE from not quite halfway through Kore-5. Young Death is in Sigurd Lancz. (We've already discovered he can also get into Abaddon, devic suicide that he is. Might be able to get into Jervis Murray as well, but we haven't got that far yet.) Uncle Abe is speaking into his head at the same time he's seeing what Young Death is seeing via Sigurd. They, one in the other in the other, are on Charan's Ark.
Re the opening quotation in Kore-1's synopsis, here's another interesting BLOCKQUOTE. In an effort to get away from Unholy Abaddon, Young Death flees to Necropolis, the once Gleaming City of Manoa. With a name like Necropolis there's no surprise it's in what's nowadays Hadd. (Nowadays being late 5937 YD or early 1938 AD, depending on which side of the Cathonic Dome you're on.) While there, in Necropolis, he has Janna Fangfingers, yet another character we first met in PREGAME-Gambit, turn him into a vampire. It doesn't stick. So he's back inside Abe Chaos, they (two-in-one) are in Berlin. There they encounter Donar Lancz, Sigurd's presumed father, and some one else. And who might this be? Young Death's still working that out:
Must be time to move on but, first, here's a final BLOCKQUOTE to whet your appetite for Kore-6. It occurs immediately after Unholy Abaddon, passed out drunk in a hayloft on the Von Alptraum's Baltic Sea estate, is impaled with his own trident. Whereupon he's seemingly immolated on the spot. Young Death is there but didn't do the impaling. He tries to flee from the blazing barn but the person(?) who did do the impaling is, well, blazingly fast:
Wait a minute! Isn't Freya (Valfreja Volsung) with Cybele St Synne at the Dre'Ath's North Sea hospice? Yep. So who is Strife occupying? Answer is she isn't occupying anyone. However, she has fused with someone. And who might that be? Not to mention how might that be? Guess what, that's Kore-5's Guess What? Top of Page |
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