I / Series archive

Before the first page, a hidden history.

The shared history of the entire six-book cycle begins in Eden and follows the public and concealed causes that lead to the opening of Book I.

The Garden of Eden

The earliest point in the series chronology: creation, human choice and the first fracture between the intended order and the history that follows.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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