A Byzantine court gathered beneath mosaics while an immortal Watcher stands in shadow

The Apocrypha

“All of us have at one time sought death.”
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01 / World premise

A multi-generational Byzantine epic in which the apocryphal scriptures remember real events—and two hundred fallen immortals have been living with the consequences ever since.

Genre
Historical Fantasy
Human horizon
The crusading era
Hidden actors
The two hundred
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I

The Watchers

Two hundred fallen angels—Therin—entered history and never left it.

II

The rivals

Semyaza and Azazyel embody opposing answers to guilt, power and the burden of immortality.

III

The humans

Emperors, courtiers, soldiers and families live where supernatural history becomes political consequence.

03 / Timeline

How this world
moves through time.

Before Recorded Time01

Garden of Eden

Creation, human choice and the first fracture establish the oldest layer of the hidden chronology.

Before the Flood02

The Descent

Two hundred Watchers enter human history and become bound to its consequences.

Ancient Egypt03

Moses & Egypt

Exodus, law and empire reshape the relationship between divine authority and human history.

c. 30 CE04

The Crucifixion

A public execution in Roman Judea becomes a decisive turning point in the sacred and concealed histories.

64–68 CE05

Nero & Rome

Imperial persecution forces the first Christian communities into danger, secrecy and endurance.

4th Century06

Rise of Christianity

A persecuted faith becomes an imperial institution with the power to define scripture, doctrine and memory.

7th–8th Centuries07

The Spread of Islam

A new religious and political world transforms the lands surrounding Jerusalem, Egypt and Byzantium.

100908

Destruction of the Holy Sepulchre

The destruction of Christianity’s most sacred church becomes one of the memories later invoked in the age of crusade.

109509

The Council of Clermont

Pope Urban II calls Latin Christendom east, setting the First Crusade—and the book cycle—in motion.

1096–109910

The First Crusade

Armies cross Byzantium and Anatolia toward Jerusalem while a hidden mission moves beneath the public campaign.

109911

The Sack of Jerusalem

The Crusaders capture Jerusalem in a violent culmination that remakes the political and sacred landscape.

1202–120412

The Fourth Crusade

A crusade intended for the Holy Land is redirected toward the greatest Christian city in the world.

120413

The Sack of Constantinople

Constantinople becomes the convergence point of centuries of public history and concealed consequence.

04 / Books

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from this world.

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Book IIn development

Spectre of Converging Ambitions

The current working title for the first volume in The Apocrypha series.

World
The Apocrypha
Collection
The Apocrypha
Format
Novel
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