The Flock of the Shore

Tales of Tyrri

Those who dreamed the most ancient pantheon of the heavens before the stars were named are gone and forgotten from all the Earth’s eight corners.  But for one land.  A chronicle of alternative history begins as from all quarters of Gaone Muru, the Middle Coast, come a dozen seekers and more---seasoned and green, wealthy and poor, woman and man, from society’s apex and its dregs also---to Great Tyrri on its seaside bay, the teeming, scheming, clan-ruled metropolis of the vibrant sea trader Ketts amidst their Eastlander clients and foes.  Ambitions intertwine at the pinnacle of an ancient city-state society as complex as the Indus civilization, in its richest hour on the cusp of crisis and change.  

While the slums roil with discontent and the warrior Wuroq stir in their serf-worked lowland over the coast crests, some of enterprise cross paths and seek their fortune in the City of Flowers, Tyrri:  Timuras the youth, sworn as a militiaman bondservant, leaving his healer ‘sister’ Zorya in the countryside perhaps to follow; Marreike of the fens, a rambler and a gambler away north with the Passion Company; Bveron-Rim the messenger who well masks his cruel secret; cheery Dhurunna, come a courtesan to the Pleasure Station of Tyrri-Mah; Tabhitda the fisherman’s daughter, ill-content with small prospects; Tarqun, a wealthy and ambitious Eastlander striving for the heights of power; devious Uhlaicsa Wrau, richest clan Senior in all Gaone Muru, and her client-lover, the haunted poet-admiral Xupai Tdauetzi; and more besides.  The Wheel of the heavenly pantheon turns; whose destiny does it favor?