Iron Angel

The Deepgate Codex: Volume II

By: Alan Campbell

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Hardcover | 29 April 2008 | Edition Number 1

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Order has collapsed in Deepgate. The chained city is now in ruins, and the Deadsands beyond are full of fleeing refugees. The Spine militia, unable to come to terms with the loss of their church, are trying to hall the exodus of panicking citizens with brutal force.
Rachel and the young angel Dill are dragged off to the Temple torture chambers ... but strange things start to happen as a foul red mist rises from the abyss beneath the city. For the god Ulcis's death has left the gates to Hell unguarded, and powerful forces in the fathomless darkness underneath Deepgate have seen their opportunity.
Only the offspring of the dread goddess Ayen understand this new danger. Cospinol, god of brine and fog, is coming to save his brother's temple - and to hunt down Ulcis's murderers. His foul, fog-wreathed skyship has already reached Sandport, carrying its own version of hell.
By now Rachel just wants to keep her companion alive. Escaping from their prison, and with enemies closing in on all sides, she is forced to undertake a perilous journey across the Deadsands towards the distant lands of Pandemeria and Coreollis.
But the battlefields at Coreollis are fated to become the locus for a clash of powers - a contest between men and gods and archons and slaves, who have been forced into desperate alliances. This is a battle, however, whose outcome will be decided not by strength but by sacrifice. And, whoever ultimately wins, it is bad news for everyone ... except for the ever-growing armies of Hell.

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Campbell's sequel to Scar Night (2006) is a nightmare scenario wherein human souls represent power, blood nourishes the dead and fallen gods battle the King of Hell for control of creation.Deepgate, the city suspended on chains above the abyss, is a smoking ruin. Self-styled King Menoa controls most of Hell, even though the angels of the First Citadel oppose him. Menoa's shape-shifting Mesmerist armies need blood to survive in the upper world, so he's manufacturing 12 invincible arconites out of iron, bone, the soul of an angel and a piece of the shattered god Iril. The gods, booted out of Heaven by their mother, Ayen, found the pearly gates sealed against them; to win their birthright back they must defeat Menoa and claim his souls. Former assassin Rachel Hael brought the young angel Dill back from the dead by giving him the potion known as angelwine, but soon a ghost from Hell displaces Dill's consciousness; the new occupant of Dill's body, an ancient battle-angel called Silister Trench, intends to warn the god Cospinol about Menoa's arconites. Back in Hell, Dill, despite new friends Hasp the battle-angel and mysterious human thaumaturge Mina Greene, cannot evade Menoa, who transforms him into a 13th arconite. If Menoa wins the forthcoming battle, humanity will become extinct; if the gods win, enslavement is the best it can expect.The untrammeled yarn-spinning trends toward hypercomplexity, yet the result is flavorsome, original and leavened with a fierce sense of humor. (Kirkus Reviews)

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