Appearing in "Book One: Tortured Souls"
Featured Characters:
- Ath'agaar (First appearance; dies) (Main story and flashback)
- Jhagur / "Michael "Mick" Jagger" (First appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Ren (First appearance; dies)
- Linette Cumpston (First appearance)
Antagonists:
- Dark Lords (First appearance)
- Koth (First appearance; dies)
- Hemuth (First appearance; dies)
- Eeyod (First appearance; dies)
- Zepharr (First appearance; dies)
- Charlie Blodgett (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Barbaric tribes from the glaciated northlands (First appearance)
- Sorcerers' mercenary troops (First appearance)
- Kaok, Lord of Sominus, Demon-King (Mentioned)
- Zhered-Na (Mentioned)
- Unnamed numerous sacrifices (Only appearance; death)
- Aliens (First appearance)
- Jesus Christ (Invoked)
- God (Invoked)
- Pete Mulgrew (First appearance)
- Putz (First appearance)
- Chet (First appearance)
- U.S. Marines (Appears on screen)
- Myron Mooke (First appearance) (Appears on screen)
- Debbie Tokugawa (First appearance) (Appears on screen)
- Marie Antoinette (Mentioned)
- Charles Darwin (Mentioned)
- Albert Einstein (Mentioned)
- Immanuel Velikovsky (Mentioned)
- Homer (Mentioned)
- Harold Robbins (Mentioned)
- David Trepper (First appearance; dies)
- David Trepper's mother
Realities:
Locations:
- Milky Way
- Solar System
- Earth
- Atlantis (Referenced)
- Jericho (Referenced)
- North America(11,000 years ago, and during the Modern Age)
- Nine citadel (Only appearance; destruction)
- Erok (Only appearance; destruction)
- Tzerama (Mentioned; destruction)
- Baalat (Mentioned; destruction)
- Kerei (Mentioned; destruction)
- Kur (Only appearance; destruction)
- Glaciated northlands (Referenced)
- United States of America
- New Mexico
- Quimby
- California
- Los Angeles (Mentioned)
- Hollywood
- San Fernando Valley (Referenced)
- The Appaloosa
- Santa Monica
- Missouri (Appears on screen)
- Dorman-Conner Medical Center
- New Mexico
- Nine citadel (Only appearance; destruction)
- Lebanon (Appears on screen)
- Earth
- Gebura (Referenced)
- Venus (Mentioned)
- Solar System
- Sominus (Mentioned)
- Hell (Invoked)
- Void Indigo, the Continuum of Pure Spirit
- Meta-Space (First appearance)
Items, Spells, and Concepts:
- Living Orb (Destroyed)
- Spell of Containment (Mentioned)
- Astral Force
Vehicles:
- Space-ships (First appearance)
Events and Eras:
- Drowning of Atlantis (Referenced)
Synopsis for "Book One: Tortured Souls"
After the citadel of Erok had fallen to Ath'agaar and his forces, the Dark Lords who previously controlled it appeared before the chieftain and his concubine Ren and abducted them both. The Dark Lords killed Ren in front of Ath'agaar and tortured him afterwards. After removing the chieftain's bonds, he began a fit of mindless rage. The Dark Lords attempted to stop him from getting too close to the Living Orb, shooting off his hand with a bolt, but sent his hand flying into the orb, smashing it, causing dust clouds to spread and wipe out all nine citadels. For over eleven millennia, Ath'agaar, Ren, and the Dark Lords all lived countless lifetimes.
After eleven millennia, the Dark Lord Koth, who was possibly living his final incarnation in the material plane, set out to arrange a final confrontation between the Dark Lords and Ath'agaar in order to resolve their eons-old conflict. Koth separated his eidolon (astral force) from his physical self and projected it into the Void Indigo, the continuum of pure spirit. While Ren and the other Dark Lords resided on Earth, Ath'agaar was reborn as an interstellar warrior from the planet Gebura named Jhagur. In the middle of a battle, Koth's eidolon appeared before Jhagur and distracted him by chanting the words "Void Indigo", allowing the enemy to shoot his ship down, causing him to crash down to Earth, where Erok, now New Mexico, once stood.
Jhagur's ship was destroyed and he was stranded on Earth and wandered into the town of Quimby. He stopped by a trailer where a man and woman were fighting over money. Jhagur used a translingual processor on his belt in order to speak English and stop the fight before shooting a bolt of indigo energy at the man, Deputy Sheriff Charlie Blodgett, incinerating his foot. The woman, Linette Cumpston took the money and entered a stolen truck. Jhagur convinced her to allow him to ride with her. After the two introduced themselves to each other, Jhagur agreed on the name "Mick" and used the photo-chromatic camouflaging function on his belt to copy the appearance of Mick Jagger.
Jhagur and Linette abandoned the truck in the San Fernando Valley and rented an apartment in North Hollywood. Linette gave Jhagur a false ID in order for him to be able to work. Linette became a waitress at The Appaloosa, while Jhagur spent weeks learning English before drifting from job to job, while studying various books.
After months of being stranded on Earth, Jhagur considered permanently staying and formed a bond with Linette. His sleep was troubled by dreams of his past life as Ath'agaar. In Santa Monica, almost a year after his arrival on Earth, Mick's fellow construction worker Mulgrew found uncovered an artifact that once belonged to Ath'agaar before becoming enraged and attacking his coworker before being stopped and knocked unconscious by the others.
After the incident, Jhagur woke up and explained himself to Linette, although she dismissed his explanation. Jhagur watched the news and saw the face of pentathalon gold medalist David Trepper, who he had seen in his dreams and was the reincarnation of Koth. Jhagur rushed to Dorman-Conner Medical Center, burst into Trepper's room, and angrily confronted him. Trepper explained their past lives and encouraged him to seek vengeance against the other Dark Lords and find Ren. Jhagur fled the hospital and explained to Linette what Trepper had revealed to him before she sewed him a "warrior's garment" to wear for his search of the remaining Dark Lords.
Solicit Synopsis
Notes
- Story followed up on in Void Indigo #1.
- Wraparound cover.
- Logo design by Fontes.