Produktbeschreibung
"It is said that there are no wonders and no horrors save those that man has brought upon itself. It is said that butterflies were born of blind evolution and insensate Nature, that the sky is but a screen of molecules between humanity and the endless void. It is said that the highest form of life is man. People have looked for more, scientists and artists reaching for some hidden magic. They have found none... but it is there. Hidden in the Secret Places, a twist of space away from the Earth that hosts them, are the Imperators Occulte: the true gods, the banished angels, the great Lords of the Dark and of the Light. Beyond the edge of the Earth is the World Ash, that holds all the worlds there are. Its tender heights support Heaven. Its roots trail into Hell. And in a certain place where no mortal man has been, those branches twine and tie together to support the graves of angels, where the yellow chrysanthemums grow.
Nobilis is set between Ash and Chrysanthemum, in the world these flora bracket — in a world where flowers are the symbols of the oldest game of all. It is the story of the 'Sovereign Powers,' shard-selves of the Imperators charged to act in their Lord or Lady's name. Do not be mistaken: these are no mere servitors. Alone, with none of their kind to aid or oppose them, any of these Powers, these Nobilis, could tear down a nation, or earn its worship.
They are called cruel, these Nobilis. They are called soulless, or soul-twisted, and this last is true, for the divine essence of an Imperator burns its way into its shard-selves' souls. They have been called glorious and they have been called evil; they have been called slaves and they have been called Lords.
Call them, instead, human. Humans caught inside when a Secret Place was built, when an Imperator chose the bodies and minds that would hold its aspects. Humans tied, now, to the elements of reality itself, and charged with the terrible responsibility of guarding those elements. Humans tied, now, to their Chancel, their Secret Place, and charged with its defense and rule.
These may not seem to be difficult duties -but there is a war going on at the edges of reality, and the Imperators are all that hold the Excruclans back. Every Power knows this, as well: sometimes this war comes to Earth. And when it does, it Is their problem alone.
It is perilous to be of the Nobilis. The Valde Helium, the war for the existence of the world, is far from the only conflict. It is altogether too easy to be drawn into wars of Light against Dark, Heaven against Hell, and even the personal conflicts spawned by hate, pride and ambition. Though the power of the Nobilis is great, the other players in the games of war and intrigue, the games of lust and hate, the games of magic...
The other players in the game of flowers are Nobilis too." |
