Dramatis personæ

Name: Gilead of the House of Levai

Title: Duke of Antioch

Caste: Nobilitas Levites

Height: 18 handsbreaths (6 feet / 2 metres)

Weight: 15 stone (210 pounds / 95 kilogrammes)

Age: 52 solar cycles (52 years)

Gilead, son of Longinus, Duke of Antioch and the last of House Levai...

The primogenitor of House Levai, Saint Levai himself, one of the Three Sons of His Most Holy Prophet, created House Levai almost 1,000 years ago, before the Apocalypse, before written history.

The genetic engineering of The Nobility, created long ago, has endured through careful breeding with other Nobility. Their offspring are endowed with many traits, including super human strength, long life, incredible endurance, and preternatural agility.

These powerful beings form the ruling caste of the known lands of Abaddon and are known as The Nobility.

But all of his abilities cannot help the last of his line, Duke Gilead of the House of Levai.

It all began when a defect originated in the House Levai Nobility, rendering them infertile.

Thus, Duke Gilead watched as the members of his House grew old and died, until he was the last of the Levites.

Now Duke Gilead has heard rumours of an immortal man by the name of Utnapishtim coming from the Suthren Lands.

In a desperate attempt to find the secret to immortality and save his dying House, he sets forth into to find this Utnapishtim...