The Sixty Second Synopsis

On the Inner Earth of Sedon’s Head the gods and goddesses, the demons and monsters of ancient myths and legends continue to exist. The Latin word for god is ‘deus’. The Romans spelt it ‘DEVS’. Collectively, the Hidden Continent's immortal gods and goddesses calls themselves ‘Devas’, which means 'the Shining Ones' but is also a Vedic term for gods. Their offspring, by themselves, are called ‘azuras’.

Devas and azuras are names for deities in both Hindu and Zoroastrian Faiths. Monotheists call gods and goddesses ‘devils’. In the PHANTACEA Mythos, the gods and goddesses, who are physical beings with, more often than not, 3-eyes, together with their immediate offspring, who are virtually invisible Spirit Beings with as many eyes as the shells they occupy, make up the ‘devazur’ race.

Nergal Vetala is the Blood Queen of Hadd, the Land of the Ambulatory Dead. She is the lone devic vampire. Her azuras are known as Vetalazurs or Lazurs for short. They animate Haddit Zombies. Another kind of azura, the Sangazurs, animate the Warrior Dead or Valhallans. For 35 years she has been unable to prevent the encroachment of the Living on her realm. Then her soldier falls out of the sky and she’s back in the pink again — as in arterial.

The Trigregos Talismans are a curved blade, a mirror that can be used as a shield and a bloodstone tiara. The Head’s anti-devazur movements cherish them as the Three Sacred Objects because they reputedly can be used to kill devils. For exactly the same reason devils call them the Three Accursed Objects. (You can call them the Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories if you like, because that's what they're known as in "Feeling Theocidal" and "The 1000 Days of Disbelief", the first two parts of the trilogy Gambit concludes.)

They’ve been separated for hundreds of years, since roughly two years prior to All-Death Day in 5494 YD. However, they're composed of Brainrock-Gypsium, the remnants of the Big Bang's Primordial Godhead. Due to the PHANTACEA-fact this Godstuff is both transmutable and teleportive, if you found one it should lead you between-space to the other two.

At stake is mastery of devils, the gods and goddesses of not just the Living. At stake as well, potentially, should be mastery over the entire Headworld. Not surprisingly, when one of them finally shows up again, it suddenly seems like nearly everyone wants all three of them. Too bad, as Nergal Vetala should know better than most, everyone who ever played a Trigregos Gambit in the past has lost.

She reckons it won't happen this time. Not once her slavish soldier, who might be an incarnation of Chrysaor Attis, a dominant figure in 'Feel Theo', and who calls her 'Goddess', acquires all three of them and becomes Trigregos Incarnate.

Re-enter what's left of the Damnation Brigade after "The War of the Apocalyptics". But will they be in time to stop the Blood Queen of Hadd and her justifiably declared Trigregos Titan or will these last finish what they and the Apocalyptics began the day before?

Will Lathakra's long-reawakened Scarlet Empress, almost as long no longer Mithras's Virgin, and Gravity, also Byron's Moon Goddess, who has only recently been released from All of Incain, play and win the same game? Will their fellow firstborns, their brother-husbands, King Cold and Byron's Beast, join them or save them? And who is Freespirit Nihila?

Is it any wonder the Smiling Fiend never stops smiling?

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