Antosfall: Book one plot

What exactly is my novel Antosfall about?

So glad you asked.

Antosfall is set in the far future timeline of my own universe taking place on a planet called Ti'cra.

I created the Ti'cra universe when I was 10 years old with a pencil and paper, busy writing the stories and characters in composition books and notepads. When it was created it was a high fantasy universe, think sword and shield and magic and dragons, but over the course of 20 years of writing I have expanded the timeline all the way to the point of an industrial era.

Antosfall is about the coming of this industrial era into a world that has been dominated by myth, beast, and kings.

In Antosfall the world collectively tightens their gut with the coming of an enemy that hasn't been seen in hundreds of years. The world has since come to almost entirely rely on technology over praise to ancient sorcery or reliance on mythical creatures such as dragons. Ramshackle machines with 'thunder-hearts', dynamos of dancing lightning, work and toil for the men and women of Antos until their life becomes nothing more than the pursuit of pleasure.

When the province of Antos reaches a critical mass of hedonism and debauchery, the whole peninsula comes under attack by an eldritch force wholly unknown to the people of the world, an endless army of alien monsters risen from the ground and falling from the sky. This event is known as Antosfall, and in less than a week the entire peninsula of Antos (now called the Scorch) is reduced to ashes.

Before the unknown force of nightmarish foes can look north to the rest of the continent of Palom, a second army arises from the bleeding wounds in the fabric of reality to rout them. Antos is the site of a demonic civil war where one faction seeks to lay claim to the rest of Palom, but is trapped by the army of a second force of demons that have arrived to stop them and bring them home.

Now this is a world that has almost completely forgotten the old ways, the ways of magic and demons and dragons, while it struggles to come to grips with what is happening in Antos. The intelligence reports lend no comfort to the leaders of Palom, for if every army in the entire world rallied at the neck of Antos to address the threat, they would still be outnumbered upwards of 10,000 to 1.

Ti'cra is gripped by fear.

The era of titanic heroes walking her surface is over, there is no powerful warrior-god to come and smite these demons as in days past. Their only option is to come together at the neck of Antos and prepare for an onslaught that may come, if the mysterious second army of demons fails in their attempt to stop the first, an onslaught that they will block with their very bodies between the mountains of the Scorchgate.