Hell’s Foundations Quiver: David Weber’s NY Times-bestselling Safehold series begun with Off Armageddon Reef, By Schism Rent Asunder, By Heresies Distressed, A Mighty Fortress and Such as a Mighty Army.

TURNING FROM THE TIDE

Generations ago, the human race fought its first great war against an alien race-and shed. A tiny human population of humans fled to faraway Safehold. Centuries later, their descendants have forgotten their history; for them, existence has been an eternal DARK AGES, ruled by about Hell’s Foundations Quiver: A Novel in the Safehold Series the Chapel of God Awaiting, whose key purpose is to prevent the re-emergence of commercial civilization.

But not all of Safehold’s founders were up to speed with this course of action. Those dissidents left behind their own top secret legacies. One of those is usually Merlyn Athrawes, cybernetic avatar of 1 of Earth’s long-dead defenders, right now reawakened after one thousand years to restart human progress and reclaim our place in the world. Merlyn offers intervened in the tiny Safeholdian realm of Charis, seeding it with suggestions and improvements and helping it to rise to challenge the hegemony of the Church.

It’s been an extended and bloody fight, but aided by a stream of inventions–breech-loading rifles, signal rockets, claymore mines, new methods to manufacturing and supply-Charis and its few allies appear to possess finally gained the top hand. Now main realms have started to consider switching edges.

To all or any these ends, Merlyn Athrawes has been just about everywhere, under multiple disguises and wielding hidden forces. The secret of who and what he’s has been carefully held. But a fresh player is here, one who knows many secrets-including Merlyn’s very own.