Chazic Hanscombe

Blood &
Fire

Book One: The Damned

They were never gods. They were never angels.
They were us — fifteen thousand years ago.

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The Prophecy

"When the five become one. When the twice-born sits on her throne, and seven kingdoms become six. When the divine empire falls, to ruin and ambition. When Amanarath sings the last song of a dead God. The Great One will awaken. Destruction and conquest will follow. Till the child of four worlds unites Hell against itself. The rivers of every world will run red, as their oceans swell with the dead. Strife will consume all. There will be nothing but Blood & Fire. "
Book One
The Damned — Book One of Blood and Fire by Chazic Hanscombe, anime cover edition

The Damned

Fifteen thousand years ago, humanity left Earth. They evolved, built an empire, and became what the people below would call angels and demons. Now they are returning — and five ordinary people are about to be pulled into a war that has been building for longer than recorded history.

A demon lord driven by fifteen hundred years of guilt. A Tokyo bartender on the edge of breaking. A New York surgeon who doesn't believe in miracles. A former MI6 officer with secrets she's buried deep. A French student who is about to discover he is not entirely human.

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The Protagonists

Five Lives. One War.

Five people across four continents, each carrying wounds the world cannot see. None of them are ready for what is coming.

Dugan of Valukaa, Lord of Ash, Thousand Slayer, Shepherd of Fire

Dugan of Valukaa

"An incomplete vessel, haunted by his sins."
Kagami Kuro, Tokyo, Japan

Kagami Kuro

"A tortured soul, on a path of revenge."
David Livingston, cardiothoracic surgeon, New York City

David Livingston

"A saver of lives, who must learn to kill."
Charlotte Greenwood, former MI6, Greenwood Manor, England

Charlotte Greenwood

"A liar, searching for the truth."
Theo Moreau, Deus descendant, rural France

Theo Moreau

"A descendant of gods, discovering his heritage."
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The Universe

15,000 Years in the Making

15,000 Years of documented history
5 Distinct civilisations
7 Kingdoms of Hell

The angels are not supernatural. They are human beings — fifteen thousand years evolved — who built an interstellar empire and then came back. The demons are a hybrid species, engineered from human and alien biology eleven and a half millennia ago. The magic is physics.

Blood & Fire is hard science fiction. Every miracle has a mechanism. Every legend has an origin. And behind every god, there is a person who made a choice.

Earth has no idea what is orbiting above it.

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