A sacrifice. A dying King. Bones in the stone, blood in the wine. A Queen consumed by the Darkness. From ancient Uruk, The Almost King tells his tale. Of The Elder and his cunning Priests in their robes of red and gold. Of an Old Woman who can call the power of the Dark Gods. Of his mother, the Queen, and his dying brother, the King.
And of the Darkness, an evil from before the Time of the Moon. Inescapable, its hunger never-ending, its shadow fed by the Priests, slowly overwhelming his family. Drowning in a sea of red and gold, the Almost King battles an unwinnable war as he navigates the wreckage towards his fate as… The Wounded King.
'The Wounded King' is the first in The Martuk Series, a collection of Short Fiction based on characters from the full-length novel Martuk… The Holy.