In IMPYRIUM, the Red Branch are not knights or champions of the realm. But their role and identity have changed. The Red Branch played an important role in The Tapestry and I wanted to include them in the new series. They were Ireland’s greatest warriors, mystic knights held in the highest esteem.
Anyone who has read Celtic mythology’s Ulster Cycle or tales of the hero, Cúchulain, is familiar with the Red Branch.
Sigga is exotic in several ways: she is a native of the dangerous Grislands, may possibly have non-human blood, and yet serves the Divine Empress as a member of the Red Branch. One of the best examples of IMPYRIUM’s blended cosmology is the character, Sigga Fenn, and the ancient order to which she belongs. Other realms, such as Nether (a ghostly crossroads) and Void are my own creations. One of these realms, the Sidh (pronounced “ shee”), is the fabled fairyland from Irish mythology. Impyrium is a fantastical place even before one gets to the Otherland Gates, magical portals to worlds beyond our own. The Faeregines may control Impyrium, but demons rule undersea kingdoms and few humans will set foot in the haunted Grislands beyond the empire’s borders.
Astaroth had created a brave new world and mankind would have to share it.ģ,000 years later, mankind is still sharing the world with other groups and beings. When the villain Astaroth attained the means to knock us back a century or three, supernatural beings no longer had to live in the shadows. At the story’s beginning, magic and mythological beings exist, but they exist at civilization’s fringes, hidden from the modern world. Within its five books, one finds Celtic gods, Egyptian artifacts, and a slew of creatures ranging from Assyrian shedu to Russian domovoi. The result is a cosmology with a fun mix of old and new.Īnyone familiar with my first series, The Tapestry, knows that I like to blend different genres and traditions together.
NeffĪlthough my new series, IMPYRIUM, is set in the distant future, the world is rooted in mythologies and folklore going back thousands of years. A Sprinkle of Old, a Dash of New: Creating IMPYRIUM’s Universe by Henry H.
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