Sanguis Sanctorum — Blood of the Saints: 4

The fourth book of the wolves. The season of the saints. The blood that remains. Sanguis Sanctorum - Blood of the Saints is the companion book to the fourth LUPUS POTESTATIS album by LUPUS POTESTATIS- eleven chapters for eleven tracks, one season of the covenant from the first giving of blood to the final confirmation that the saints cannot be undone. On an ancient hill, inside a cathedral built on ground that made its own arrangement long before the first stone was laid, a pack of seven wolves stands in the crossing around a circle of stones that have been warm since before the institution arrived to name the heat. Malachar Voss has kept the covenant for thirty years. Sister Vael has been its witness. And now Cael - sixteen years old, four generations of bloodline deep, standing at the edge of the circle with his head raised and his posture open - has arrived at the threshold the ground has been waiting for. The institution sends its envoys. The parishes draft their mandates. The hierarchy prepares its language of accountability and oversight and approved forms. None of it lands. The pack is full. There is no room for the institution's version of reality to install itself in people who have already given what was asked and received what the covenant gives and stand in the cold cathedral knowing that the ground beneath the flagstone holds everyone who came before them - particular, warm, permanent, beyond the reach of any authority that did not make the original arrangement. This is what the saints knew that the institution could never teach: The wrath of the saints is not violence. It is permanence. It is the complete refusal to be erased. Sanguis Sanctorum is gothic dark fiction at the intersection of mythology, music, and manuscript - written in the register of the ground itself: declarative, layered, built to be read more than once. Each chapter carries an epigraph from the recovered Liber Thaelis Velthari, a narrative corresponding to its album track, and a coda in the voice of what the ground holds. Companion to the LUPUS POTESTATIS album series. Part of the Dark Sacred Series. Preceded by: Crimson Advent - LUPUS POTESTATIS I The Wolf of God - LUPUS POTESTATIS II >MORS NON IMPERABIT

Pagina's: 134, Paperback, Independently published