Conquerors of K’Tara
Conquerors is set on the distant planet K’Tara, a world which circles a binary star system, some three thousand years in the future. Thanks to a very unusual environment as well as to their biology, K’Tarans built a thriving civilization which flourished not by way of metal-based technological advancements, but through the masterful harnessing of biology. Despite these great achievements, though, K’Tarans will crumble when those they believed to be their gods come to conquer and enslave them. But K’Tarans will rise again, after they create new myths and legends to spur their own conquest of the false gods living on the third planet of the system Sol.
Note that the Conquerors of K’Tara series is not an end-to-end, fast-paced story. It is a story that unfolds as perhaps real life unfolds: sometimes really fast, where the characters are fighting battles or running from danger, and other times quite slowly, where characters are debating options, dealing with their emotions, or going through the pains of everyday life. Moreover, this series is not built on the principle of closing the loop on all the plot points at the end of each book. Some questions may not get resolved for several books. Conquerors of K’Tara is a story about a possible future, which I imagined, and it is told from the perspective of a narrator a few centuries after the events, sometimes focusing on gripping episodes and other times on more mundane and yet deeply personal experiences of the characters. If this appeals to you, please read-on.
Planet K’Tara
K’Tara is the world upon which most of the events of the novel unfold. The planet’s location in the binary star system to which it belongs have created upon it some of the fiercest meteorological conditions of any habitable planet. But despite the harsh environment, life has evolved upon K’Tara, as it has elsewhere, and it is perhaps more majestic, fascinating, dangerous and repulsive because of its conditions. Most of all, though, life on K’Tara has permitted the development of a unique humanoid society, a society in many ways superior to that which caused its creation. Here-below are the maps, created by me, of the major continents of K’Tara.
- Map of the known continents of K’Tara
- Map of the lands of the king
- Map of Aquinos, the land of our heroes
- Map of Kynaria, a mystical land
- Map of Mo’Tarkoth, a little-known but feared land
The Images
The various images on the pages of my site (except for the double-headed furan which I, myself, drew) were created by a talented artist named Michele (Meekeleh) Parisi, a young man living in Florence, Italy, and whom I had the fortune to meet via UpWork. Michele also made improvements to the double-headed furan (the emblem of House Coriolis). View my image gallery which contains final illustrations for Forebodings, as well as sketches of the illustrations for Eruption, and a collage of other domesticated animals of K’Tara. If you wish to see Michele’s other works, you may go here: www.artstation.com/michele_parisi.
Relationship Diagram of the Main Characters
Timelines
Insanity – or Lusk’s Song
Insanity was born as a single quatrain in Forebodings, where Lusk Methrim sang it during the testing of his healing abilities by the Lux Baiulae. Adam R. Watson so loved to sing those four lines, that he asked if I would finish the song so he could do the entire thing. So, I did and this here is the long-awaited result. The song, sung from a young man’s perspective, tells about the insanity of war, of his fears, and of his hope that he will remain a decent person through it and, at that he will still be so at the end of it.
Click to the right to listen. You may also hear Insanity on SoundCloud
Insanity
Conquerors of K’Tara – The Books
Conquerors of K’Tara – The Novel
The novel, which will likely be hexalogy, tells the story of the K’Tarans through the eyes of the main characters, from the moment their world is threatened through to the moments where it is shattered and finally reclaimed from their now-understood-to-be false gods.
The Conquerors of K’Tara Short Stories
The short stories provide a glimpse into the world of the K’Taran gods as well as a closer look into the lives of novel’s characters. The Ronin shorts introduce and then follow two characters (Ronin and Julia), who will become key to the K’Tarans’ liberation, as they make their way to the distant planet on board the Galactic, a flagship transporting the ultimate deceiver and his army.
Book 4, planned for release 2025-2026.
Book 4 (Second Eruption) will see Alvinoria invaded by Zebula’s army, which will take residence in the south and send prisoners of high value back to Zebulonia. Zebula will also enslave a large number of Alvinorian males to rejuvenate the Zebulonian creatics, as directed by the criptic Nihildrina.
Doubt, confusion, and murder cripple the Sisterhood of the Light, and the people of Alvinoria begin to revolt against their king, who finds himself powerless against a universe that has decided to conspire against him and his family.
This is what the Founder, Noctiferus, had hoped for, planned for. The door will now be open for his arrival–for his conquest of the planet
Book 5, planned for release 2027-2028.
Book 5, to be named The Conquest, will see the conquest and enslavement of K’Tara by Noctiferus, who will arrive on the planet under false pretenses, kill the high king, and then take the princes prisoners. The brothers will escape with the help of Ronin and Julia who take High Prince Aithen and Elyana Lux Baiula — a long-time advisor to the royal family and Aithen’s betrothed — back to Earth to request the intervention of Empress Alia — the Empress of Earth and all its Colonies. Meanwhile, Toras and his second in command, Laiella Lux Baiula, will begin to organize the uprising.
Book 6, planned for release 2029-2030.
Book 6, to be named Voces Creatoris, will see hope return to K’Tara. With the help of Ronin, a few Earthers, and Humans from other planetary colonies, K’Tarans will bring down the tyrant “god” and his followers and then begin to consider their place in a universe filled with wonders and dangers they could not have imagined.
Magna K’Tara, congregamur ut dare tibi sororibus nostris, eos qui mortui sunt tibi servandum. Sorores, nostris mentibus nunc nos ligare!
English translation: “Great K’Tara, assembled we are to give you our Sisters, those who in your service have died. Sisters, our minds let us now join!”
Krystiana meli dux, great mother of the sisters of the light.
Incantation during the Ascension Ceremony following the death of two sisters.