Bringer of Chaos: the Origin of Pietas
My logo contains my website a pair of eyes with square pupils, and a few words: art, sci-fi, romance, space opera. Today's post features examples of the first word -- art.
I have gained a small collection of images, mostly of the immortal king, and I'll be sharing them as I put them in place on my website.
A sincere thanks to the artists Babs_BNN and Volgraza, as well as Zachary Johnson for sharing their work with me. I hope you enjoy these!
Pietas - by Babs BNN
Six and Pietas - by Volgraza
Zachary Johnson performs the first five chapters of Ring of the Dragon on his YouTube channel. Not to be missed!
Enter to win this red leather dragon journal
Click covers for the buy link. Click text for the website page and excerpts.
#SciFi #WriteLGBTQ #Romance
You'll find these characters mentioned in many books in my story universe.
Download a printable book list and check them off as you read.
JOIN US FOR BOOKHOOKS
Book Hooks is a weekly meme hosted by Marketing for Romance Writers as part of the MFRW Authors Blog.
It's a chance each week for you the reader to discover current works in progress or previously published books by possibly new-to-you authors.
Thank you for stopping by. Please say hello or leave a note in the comments.
Audiobook narrator by day, math tutor by night. And day. Dynamic, confident, commanding. Wry wit for the written word.
Listen to Zachary and he'll narrate short stories, upcoming novels, cinematic trailers, and when time finally permits, some voice acting videos.
And if you want to talk audiobooks, check out his website www.zachjvo.com
Zachary performed the first five chapters of Ring of the Dragon on his YouTube channel, and his talent and insight into Pietas astonished me. I am excited to work with him on new projects as well.
Zachary's performance of Pietas in Ring of the Dragon matches the immortal king's snarkiness as well as intelligence.
This edition of Lights Out includes Exclusive Reader Group
cover with Six's tattoo.
Bringer of Chaos: Lights Out
Available only for reader group members
for a limited time -- features exclusive cover
showing Six's dragon tattoo
Genre: science fiction, space opera
Download Behind the Scenes of Lights Out.
(Read how to send this sample to your Kindle)
Genre: science fiction, space opera
Download a behind the scenes look at this book.
(Read how to send this sample to your Kindle)
Tornahdo is facing his most dangerous mission, the very reason Ghost Corps exists. He must take out the king responsible for every war between humans and Ultras since the origin of the Ultra bloodline.
If he succeeds, the war is over.
If he doesn't, the Ultras will rule mankind for another thousand years...
In this scene, Tornahdo is having a quiet drink prior to leaving on a mission, when a member of Ghost Corps shows up.
Ravenstongue sauntered toward him. "Why you here?"
Tornahdo kicked back in his chair. After stretching out his legs, he crossed his ankles. "Why do you care?"
"Big ops tomorrow. Lights out in ten. Time for you to go home and go to bed."
Behind the bar, the keeper closed up shelves and battened down doors.
"Yeah?" Tornahdo flicked a hand toward the door. "I'll follow you out."
"I'm not leavin'. Didn't you hear? We passed inspection with the highest scores. Got a free night out." Ravenstongue jabbed a finger toward Tornahdo. "But you gotta go home like a good boy."
In no kingdom in the galaxy would that happen.
Ravenstongue lifted two fingers, signaling his cohorts.
The keeper ducked behind the bar while the goons flanked their wannabe boss, imbecilic grins in place.
A pair of demons usually sat on Tornahdo's shoulders. The bad demon laid out strategy while the good demon discouraged action. Tonight, the good demon flipped a middle finger toward Ravenstongue with a not-so-subtle suggestion to kick his ass.
Tornahdo took his time rising, slid his chair under the table. "What did you say?"
"I said, 'You gotta go home like a good boy.'"
Hanging his thumbs in his belt, Tornahdo gave him a slow smile. "Go back to the bar, finish your drink and we'll pretend we're all friends and leave together. This is your last chance for a peaceful end."
"Peaceful." With a scoff, Ravenstongue jerked his head toward Short Goon. "You hear that?"
"Yeah. Maybe we oughta do what--"
Ravenstongue jabbed him with an elbow.
"I mean, yeah! I heard that." He leaned closer to his boss. "We gonna?"
"No, you idiot. Shut your face and back me up."
How did these hotheads enlist? Ghost Corps must have been desperate for bodies. Literally. A fighter's corpse they could reanimate. Which was a sobering thought.
Was that what the corps thought of him?
Get Lights Out
The story of how "Six" became "Six" plus a FREE Illustrated Starter Set
FIC009090, FIC009100, FIC009140, FIC027220, FIC028000, FIC028010, FIC028030, FIC028040, FIC028050, FIC028070, FIC028090, FIC028110, FIC028120, FIC028130, FIC031050, FIC032000
Forged in Fire: Bringer of Chaos
Universal book link (find it anywhere available) https://books2read.com/u/bpW7Kg
Books in this series include Origin of Pietas, and Lights Out. Links below.
An exiled immortal king must contend with the most dysfunctional family since forever.
In this scene from Bringer of Chaos: Forged in Fire, the not-quite-human Six offers water to the immortal king, Pietas.
Six slid their canteen off over his head and held it out to Pietas.
Accepting anything from a human, an altered one at that, had violated every instinct at first. To take from an enemy, yes. Always. Let one give you something as if you needed it? Admit a weakness before an enemy?
Never.
But this was Six.
Pietas took it.
Ultras could go days without water, but they consumed it when they had it. He wiped one dusty hand across his mouth. The satisfaction of assuaged thirst never failed to please. What simple things in life brought pleasure! In captivity, he'd dreamed of even a drop to cool his tongue. He'd sworn he'd never take water for granted again.
Six had offered it to their companions during the climb, but the entire lot refused anything a mortal's lips had touched. Yes, Six was a quasi-immortal. A dead human soldier who'd been resurrected and enhanced with Ultra blood. A "ghost." But to the others, that gave him even less status.
Pietas wavered on few things, but on this? Should he call the man human, mortal, quasi-immortal, or ghost? He'd elected to choose as the mood struck. But one in particular annoyed Six.
"Thanks, ghost." He thrust the canteen against Six's chest.
Staggering, he swore in Spanish. "Find another name for me."
"Tell me your mortal name then."
"You know I can't." Six scratched his cheek. "Gotta protect my family. If your kind knew who they were, they'd slaughter them. You wouldn't, but them?"
Now they were getting somewhere. "So you do trust me?"
"Pi, there's more honor in your left big toe than your entire race combined." He tipped up the canteen but then paused. "No offense."
"None taken. But we're stranded, my friend. Unless a miracle happens, by the time we get off this world, your family will be long dead." He added, "No offense."
Six finished his drink and plugged the canteen. "None taken. Sorry. Can't do it." He lifted the strap back over his head and settled it onto his shoulder, the canteen at his back. "Seriously, Pi, your people hear you call me you-know-what, it'll give away I was Ghost Corps. We both know what they'll do to me."
Want to read this book and not pay for it? Legally. Here's how you can get the book at no cost.
Members of my Reader Groups have the opportunity to sign up for my Free Books Forever Club and download any of my books, just for asking. Get the full scoop on this page.
Universal book link (find it anywhere available) https://books2read.com/u/bpW7Kg
Join my Sci Fi or my Sci Fi + Romance reader group and you'll get free books, including Chaos and Endure, illustrated quote books with words of Pietas. You'll enjoy exclusive, insider contests and giveaways, plus gain advance access to links of member-only material and webpages. Best of all, you can read my new books for free. You can unsubscribe at any time.
Who Are the Ultras featuring Nik Nitsvetov as Pietas
Voiceover performed by Zack Black
Images courtesy of: Depositphotos.com, Nik Nitsvetov and @by_cosphoto
Charon's Boat image custom designed by Nano-Core for the series
Video editor Zealot6 (fiverr.com/zealot6)
Based on the Sci Fi series Bringer of Chaos by Kayelle Allen
Music: Dreams of War by Orchestralis, licensed via Dual Horns Studios Ltd
Our dear Bringer of Chaos makes a few rather... shall we say..."pointed" comments about humans while he explains how we use cookies on this site: Cookies
Do you dare to follow Pietas on Facebook?
FIC009090, FIC009100, FIC009140, FIC027220, FIC028000, FIC028010, FIC028030, FIC028040, FIC028050, FIC028070, FIC028090, FIC028110, FIC028120, FIC028130, FIC031050, FIC032000
Origin of Pietas: Bringer of Chaos
Universal book link (find it anywhere available) https://books2read.com/u/4DovO7
Books in this series include Forged in Fire, and Lights Out. Links below.
On the day of impending peace talks with humans, Pietas, leader of the immortal Ultras, must bow to the will of the mighty Council or face impeachment. As suspected, the talks devolve into an inescapable trap. Faced with the destruction of his people, Pietas surrenders. Once imprisoned, he finds an unlikely ally in a human. Pietas will either doom his people to exile and face the end of his own immortality, or place his faith in that which he most hates. A human...
In this scene, Pietas experiences an unfamiliar situation -- a friend who has his back. It begins with Pietas speaking.
"My father would get so angry with me, Six. He'd say it under his breath, but I heard. He'd call me useless. I say that about myself."
"How can you think of yourself as useless? You're the most powerful Ultra ever created. Everybody knows that."
With a twitch of his fingers, Pietas dismissed the praise. "It is not how I feel. If I were telepathic, I could have found my people by now. If I were telepathic, I wouldn't have gotten us marooned on an alien world. No, my father was right. When it comes to telepathy, I am useless."
"Wow." Six tossed part of a small branch onto the fire, sending sparks spiraling upward. "Biggest pity party I've ever been to."
Pietas leaned on one hand to face Six. "What is a pity party?"
"When you feel sorry for yourself and expect others to do the same thing 'Poor me. Look how I'm suffering.' That's a pity party."
"Excuse me for sharing how I felt."
"You were doing fine, until you said you were useless. I don't care who told you that. It's a pure out-and-out lie and you know it. To let anybody else's opinion of you keep you from being your best..." Six threw down the stick. "Look, Ultra. That's not you, okay? Listen to me. I sat with you while you were nothing but two big blue eyes, and blackened skin stretched over bones. You couldn't lift your head, you were so weak. You tried not to show how much pain you were in, but I could see it. I could hear it in the way you panted, trying to breathe. The way you hobbled about as if all your bones were broken. But you fought like a caged animal to get your strength back. I will never accept any lie about you being useless. You're one of-- No, you are the strongest person I've ever known."
The pride at those words from so dear a friend--a human friend--brought tears to his eyes. Pietas turned his head, and blinked them away.
Want to read this book and not pay for it? Legally. Here's how you can get the book at no cost.
Members of my Reader Groups have the opportunity to sign up for my Free Books Forever Club and download any of my books, just for asking. Get the full scoop on this page.
Universal book link (find it anywhere) https://books2read.com/u/4DovO7
Join my Sci Fi or my Sci Fi + Romance reader group and you'll get free books, including Chaos and Endure, illustrated quote books with words of Pietas. You'll enjoy exclusive, insider contests and giveaways, plus gain advance access to links of member-only material and webpages. Best of all, you can read my new books for free. You can unsubscribe at any time.
Ritual of Strength performed by Nik Nitsvetov
Voiceover performed by Zack Black
Images courtesy of: Nik Nitsvetov and @by_cosphoto
Video editor Zealot6
Based on the Sci Fi series Bringer of Chaos by Kayelle Allen
Music: Coming of Time by Orchestralis, licensed via Dual Horns Studios Ltd
Our dear Bringer of Chaos makes a few rather... shall we say..."pointed" comments about humans while he explains how we use cookies on this site: Cookies
Do you dare to follow Pietas on Facebook?
FIC009090, FIC009100, FIC009140, FIC027220, FIC028000, FIC028010, FIC028030, FIC028050, FIC028070, FIC028090, FIC028110, FIC028120
A bundle of high-caliber authors for lovers of SF/F.
This special event showcases all subgenres of sci-fi and may include cyberpunk, dystopian, fantasy, young adult, hard scifi, military, paranormal, post-apocalyptic, robots, sci-fi romance, soft scifi, space opera, technothrillers, time travel, urban fantasy, and more.
Join us! SF Free Book Event
Pick up the first story in the Bringer of Chaos series, Lights Out, free by joining a reader group!
https://kayelleallen.com/reader-groups
You'll find these characters mentioned in many books in my story universe.
Download a printable book list and check them off as you read.
