Elder Earth is a post-apocalyptic, alternate timeline, set in the year 2031, where the Catholic Church, specifically English crusading orders, holds sway over a fragmented North America ...
the narrative focuses on the brutal, frontier conflicts in "Awes West" and "Far Dastardy" against monstrous entities like Wendigo, Sasquatch/Stonnish Giants, and Voodoo cultists, often referred to as "negras" and led by figures like "Pappa Doc Black O’ Roy."
We follow several characters, including the low-born but rising Ranger Brawn Pillory, the mysterious Knight Brash/Knight Ghast, the newly elevated Knight Peter Grim and his enigmatic tutor, Knight Thirteen, and the runaway milkmaid Lynn Jamison, detailing their violent lives, religious fervor, and struggle for survival against both supernatural and human foes. The tone is heavily influenced by chivalric romance (specifically citing The Song of Roland).
The Acts of the Knights Trace in Awes South: A Novel of Elder Earth
... Awes West and Awes South and the men who guard those reaches belong to a world of brutal continuity in which the best and worst of them trace their traditions directly to King Arthur and bold Count Roland over a thousand years gone, an aged medieval world that yet values raw men of unapologetic brawn.
On Elder Earth, the time of dire portents named In the Year of Our Lord 2031 has brought hell to Redrock Station and sent Brawn Pillory, a pony boy in service to the Knights Trace, into manhood as the saddle tender to the most savage scout of Awes West. As dread whispers of Stonish Giants and Wendigos returning out of heathen legend to menace Awes North hiss from narrow Indian lips, the Don’s of New Spain off southward send a request for aid to their traditional Christian foes—the “Nether Arm” of His Distant Britannic Majesty in this furthest Wester New England, what has never known a clear and present King.
Composition
Ranger? is a work of fiction faithful to on old and odd tradition sung in The Song of Roland, the anthem, or “bitter bread” of the rangers, scouts and pony boys of Awes West and South, who, more often then not, could count on “‘deir knightly betters leavin’ ‘em Injun-hunted red en scrawn fo’ dead.”
None of the characters in this work are strictly fictional, with most plain rip-offs of the world-trodden souls of the poor goddamned men I worked with in Baltimore, one of a less fortunate New England’s most “tarable” shitholes.
This novel is not plotted, not planned and not composed by a western man. It is though, inspired by a dozen and more men, who call this high land home and have welcomed this eastern runt here to rest his soul. I hope they find something in it to entertain as true.
The Acts of Awes West: A Tale of Elder Earth
In A Medieval American West ...
Sorcerer! is a fantasy that unfolds in an Alter Elder Earth, a world where Christendom held back Islam at Constantinople in 1453, in which Henry the Eighth had a son and where Martin Luther became Pope. In Elder Earth New England sprawls as a Medieval America, a vast land ruled by the Sword under The Cross, in The 2031st Year of Our Lord.
Where Crusaders and Comanches Wage War
Medicine Wheel Mountain, Medicine Bow Range, the Priory of Awes West, Under the Bishopric of Montana, in His Majesty’s Domain of Wester New England.
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Wester New England is structured according to church doctrine in Bishoprics, and rather than the Kings’ soldiery, is protected by the Knights of The Church in their Three Sanguine Orders:
- The Knights Sepulcher [descended from the purged order Templar] who guard Iowa and the North
- The Knights of Saint George, who guard the South on the Border Marches of Arkansas
- The Knights Trace, who guard Montana, Colorado and Kansas and the West
The most prosperous and populous Bishopric of the West is Iowa.
The most depressed and desolate Bishopric is the Indian Cloister Province of Dakota.
Montana bears the brunt of foreign menace and extends west to White Fish, Yellow Stone, and the Bear Tooth Mountains, is bordered on the Southwest by The Great Salt Lake and to the south by Colorado.
West of The Great Divide, beyond the jagged Bear Tooth Mountains broods Alaska, where Schismatic Conspiracy threatens from the Domain of the Czars.
To the South, the Comanche Hordes buffer and harry the Bishoprics of Kansas and Colorado and the Dons of New Spain, who rule lazily over their sleepy mission towns.
Away and anon to south and east, in the piney Border Marches of Arkansas, the ancient evils of Voodoo thrive under the Corrupt Viceroys of New France.
North in the river-traced reaches of Canada the Jesuit Apostates, having resisted the Servile Decree of the Pope these Hundred Heretical Years, plot their dooms in Winter’s very home among their savage flocks of forest flitting tribesmen.
Wester New England, half-forgotten by its distant King, is guarded on its borders by the swords of the crusading orders, administered by the Bishops and Abbots. It is a realm under threat from Voodoo cultists and Heathen hordes to the south, Czarist
A Couplet Novel: A Tale of Elder Earth
Half-Orphan, Lynn Jamison bled her first this last spring. Now, before her fourteenth winter, the quiet recluse of a milkmaid, faces a fate even worse than being the ever-scolded stepdaughter of Cowherd Plowbent, one of six peasant farmers to scratch a living from Shingle Mill Hollow. For, as Wakesummer Eve brought news of a plague from The New Dead Sea, up through the Midland hamlets, up to the tiny hamlet of Shingle Mill, the news itself was brought by a Plague Didact in his beaked hat. Accompanied by a brutal man-at-arms, the Plague Didact not only brought news of death and new rules to live by—but sought also a wife.
Thence, on Wakesummer Eve, dragged from the cowshed and promised to a man face-unseen behind a sinister mask, Lynn Jamison saw but one course open to her short of taking her own life with her long lost father's hunting knife—to flee by night up Shingle Creek.
The Three Hymns of Half-Orphan Lynn
- Masks of Wan Fate
- Forest of Long Dark
- Mountains of Grim Witness
Young Peter, at 18 years, vested with uncommon honest sense, is the youngest and last of his father’s many sons—for wicked creatures have been rising among the Misty Mountains and the Grim Warden of these wild ranges has paid the price no father wishes paid. For this reason, has Peter Grim brought his last son down to the sea, to engage a tutor, a learned man, to educate his son in ways different from those that have robbed him of every heir but his last.
There, together at the docks, they encounter a wonder, a mystery… and a Slave of a singular sort from the sea.
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