Wraeththu by Other Writers
Wraeththu Mythos Books, edited by Storm Constantine
Wraeththu Mythos by Other Writers
Breeding Discontent
Wendy Darling & Bridgette Parker
A dark tale set in Megalithica, Breeding Discontent
tells the story of Lisia, a hostling in a secret Varrish breeding facility, forced to make pearls - new life - on demand by the military.
The Gelaming general, Ashmael Aldebaran, and a unit of his troops are on duty in Megalithica, when they uncover the hidden facility, which has been abandoned by its administrators. Only a group of struggling survivors remain: former hostling Lisia and nearly two hundred harlings.
Lisia, suspicious of the Gelaming, fears the possibility of death or imprisonment, or at the very least eviction from his home. Will Ashmael follow orders to the letter and tear this community apart, or will he show mercy to the living products of the facility? And how will Lisia and his charges react to those who have come to liberate them, when liberation feels like conquest?
The past and the present begin to overlap, as Lisia's chilling history is told through the pages of his diary and he struggles to fight for his future, and the welfare of those in his care.
Cover by Eirian
Immanion Press, 2003
Terzah's Sons
Victoria Copus
Terzah, a wilful and fiery second generation har from the tribe of Kheops, has accompanied his Gelaming consort, Zen, to a remote area of Megalithica, where the Gelaming have set up a rough settlement for human refugees. Terzah has recently had a harling, and is far from happy with Zen's posting. Terzah despises humans and has nothing but contempt for those around him.
However, when tragedy strikes the small community, and a human who Terzah realises was actually a friend to him dies unexpectedly, Terzah is moved to take in the woman's orphaned sons. Not every human agrees with this, as they feel humans should be raised by humans. Terzah finds himself fighting prejudice as keen as his own.
Gradually, Terzah realises his attitude to humanity must change, as hara and humans are forced to work together to overcome common threats and dilemmas, so that the settlement will succeed and become a real community. Conflicts within his own family and dark secrets kept by his consort add intrigue and drama to the tale.
Terzah's Sons gives a fascinating glimpse into the daily life of hara, far from the courts of the high ranking and mighty. These are hara who get their hands dirty, coping with life's problems as best they can in primitive conditions. Author Victoria Copus has captured the character of Terzah, the customs of the shamanic Kheops and the complexities of intertribal politics with a deft hand. This story is a skilful and insightful addition to the canon of the Wraeththu Mythos.
Cover by Ruby
Immanion Press, 2005
Song of the Sulh
Maria J. Leel
Humanity’s time on Earth is done and a new, androgynous species has risen to take its place. Deep in the mountains of the eastern coast of the New World lives Raven, a human boy, and the last remnants of his ancient tribe. His adopted father, Two Comet, persuades Raven that the only chance for the survival of his heritage lies in Raven joining humanity’s usurpers: Wraeththu. Reluctantly, Raven agrees, but in a final act of defiance conceives a child with his close friend, Pale Fawn.
Raven is incepted into a phyle of the Wraeththu tribe of Sulh, a band of travelling scholars who welcome the ancient wisdom he brings to them. When Raven’s human tribe inevitably succumbs to extinction, Raven and his chesnari, Fen, find a way to send Pale Fawn, and the child she carries, to safety far across the ocean to the east.
Raven accompanies Fen to his homeland, Alba Sulh, and meets his people, the Waterlanders, a tribe of both Wraeththu and human women. Here, there is a mystery concerning Fen’s vanished sister, Serena, and other women who disappear mysteriously into strange – and predatory - etheric rifts. Following an inner call, both Raven and Fen are driven to seek out the family members they have lost, and follow the Waterland mystery to its source across the eastern seas. What they find makes them realise their role in the new world order will be more crucial than they could have dreamed.
Song of the Sulh is a strong, character-driven story, and an innovative addition to the canon of the Wraeththu Mythos.
Cover by Danielle Lainton
Immanion Press, 2012
Whispers of the World That Was
Book 1 of The Gold Country Series
E. S. Wynn
Independent, isolationist and protected by the geography and legends surrounding the Rift of the Damned, the hara of the Gold Country live off what they can salvage from the sunken cities and abandoned towns. While hara of tribes elsewhere awaken to their newfound abilities, learn their bodies and discover new gods, the har-men of the Gold Country cling to the old, familiar ways of the human era.
Even before they were har, the folks of Cinder Hill fought against the tides of an ever-changing world, cursing the laws and politicians that killed every industry, except for Wild West tourism. Now, the laws have gone, the world itself torn apart to birth a wild new way of being. But in Cinder Hill echoes of the past linger on; hara who still deny the changes in themselves get by in the only way they know how – as their hardworking human ancestors once did.
When Tyse and his salvage trawler crewmates haul a mysterious object from the ocean, they initiate a series of events that will bring change to the Gold Country, whether those who live there want it or not. Tyse discovers that his terrifying new state of being is the only way to combat an implacable threat that seeks to eradicate all hara from the Gold Country and beyond. Powerful predators have appeared, their origins unknown, and none can hide from these deadly and apparently indestructible hunters. None except – perhaps – a har in control of his own powers.
Gritty and uncompromising, E. S. Wynn brings a new vision to the ground-breaking Wraeththu Mythos, where the humanity remaining in hara fights to resist the inevitable change, and old prejudices and conditioning hamper the evolution of an isolated tribe.
Cover by Ruby
Immanion Press, 2015
Echoes of Light & Static
Book 2 of The Gold Country Series
E. S. Wynn
Even before some were turned from human to har, the folks of the Gold Country, in the continent now known as Megalithica, fought against the tides of an ever-changing world, cursing the laws and politicians that killed every industry except for tourism. Even before the machine mind rose to create an army of drones set to purge Wraeththu hara from the Hollow Hills, there was fight and resistance in the tribes of the Gold Country.
But the land is quiet now. The war drones of humanity’s last stab at the heart of harakind lie defeated, rusting in the streets of Cinder Hill. The last of the Thuulhuum, a tribe of harish survivors from across the broken towns of the Gold Country, live in peace, getting by much as their hardworking human ancestors did. Life is hard, but at least the threats to the few hara still gathered in the Gold Country have been laid to rest.
Until the drones start to rise again - and then mysteriously disappear, but to where? Until the visions come of a mighty brass-winged dragon. Until the raiders and the rain start to wash into Segerstrom Ranch, casting an unlucky and inexperienced envoy of Gelaming hara into the wild and fiery chaos that follows.
‘Echoes of Light and Static’ is the story of a har named Tule Wolf, who is sent by the Gelaming to the wild landscape of ‘Whispers of the World that Was’, E. S. Wynn’s first novel in the series. But this new story is not Tule Wolf’s alone. It is a tale of love, of strife, and the resurrection from the dust of an old enemy that may not be everything it seems to be.
Cover by Ruby
Immanion Press, 2017
Voices of the Silicon Beyond
Book 3 of The Gold Country Series
E. S. Wynn
Vaetta is not human. Vaetta is a synthetic female who looks human, a Valkyrie-model agent, but far more than a mere robot. Her world is overcrowded, and its resources have reached the breaking point. The humans who govern this parallel Earth need a solution to their civilization’s problems – and quick!
The perfect opportunity seems to present itself when a strange, androgynous visitor appears from an inexplicable portal to another world. His name is Tyse, and he too is seeking help, because his people, a Wraeththu tribe, are also under threat. He reveals how his world is sparsely populated, following the demise of humankind and the rise of a civilization known as Wraeththu who now hold power. In Vaetta's world, the Wraeththu have never even appeared...
To Vaetta’s creators, Tyse’s arrival seems to offer a golden opportunity – a resource-rich world ripe for the taking and the portal to reach it. The existing inhabitants, living in the ruins of a former civilization, and not even human, can hardly impede plans for mass colonization. Vaetta is chosen to lead a troupe of Valkyries to Tyse’s Earth to scout, explore and begin preparations for invasion.
But Vaetta soon discovers that her owners’ assumptions are incorrect and what waits for her on the other side of the Conduit – the portal to Tyse’s Earth – is a situation far beyond her own people’s imaginations. Just who and what is the mysterious Dragon? Why do alien emotions begin to course through her synthetic mind? Some things just don’t make sense to her, until a fatal meeting through which she discovers a history with far-reaching implications covering all realities.
A deft and page-turning climax to E. S. Wynn’s popular ‘Gold Country’ series, ‘Voices of the Silicon Beyond’ opens up intriguing new vistas in the Wraeththu Mythos.
Cover by Ruby
Immanion Press, 2018
