Thursday, June 26, 2008

The Isles of Myst

Welcome to the year PE 2255 and a technologically advanced world of diverse hominid species, a corrupt earth filled with violence, advanced weaponry, slavery and extreme misogyny.

The Director of the Institute of Metaphysical Research Aodhan m' Cullough. is one of the few people left on earth who believes in the Creator. When his plans for an alternative energy source are stolen, a source without the limitations inherent in converting the earth's magnetic field into usuable power, he knows that if he can't retrieve those plans, somebody will use them to create the ultimate weapon, one that could precipitate an ecological disaster of unimaginable scope.

The greatest military force in the world, The Army of the Xerean Republic, has tried, and failed to retreive the schematics, returning instead with plans for an old-style cold fusion reactor. Aodhan is forced to accept the help of the Mystics of Utlan. Although he grew up in Utlan, he rejects their worship of pagan goddesses and is an outcast. His mother is the High Priestess of the Sisterhood, and he's refused to set foot in Utlan since graduating from university.

After being briefly trained for four months in the Mystic Arts, he travels to the eastern continent and learns essential truths about hominid nature, about women, slavery, God, and ultimately, about himself.

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