Tempus Ante: Book 1 in the Shaper of Life-forms Trilogy - Softcover

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Before Amenthas was born as a dark-skinned human with silver hair and eyes, he was something unimaginable.

Tempus Ante (Time Before) is a tale of who he was before he was a human physician in the Al-corian interstellar empire.

In a string of short novellas, the tale of Amenthas’ before-life existence is laid out. The tale explains the origins of Amenthas’ arcane power, the realm that he originated from and which spirit beings he met. Oddly enough, these spirit beings actually roamed around and created a society in a place where all concepts found in the physical universe originated.

Before his birth as a human in the physical dimension, Amenthas existed for eons as a universal concept and a spirit being that strangely ended up influencing the actions of humans in the physical dimension.

The novellas show how he and the other spirit beings sometimes influenced the actions of individuals on various worlds, sometimes unwittingly and other times intentionally, ultimately shaping civilisations and cultures over vast stretches of time. The stories also explain the rationale for their intervention and explains why various human-like species (not always specifically Homo Sapiens) is common throughout quite a lot of the universe.

The novellas answer questions about this ‘before life’ spirit realm and whether the spirit beings are generally benevolent or malevolent and lays out the rationale for their individual actions.

What would you do, if you found out that you were essentially the definition of a universal concept in an amortal existence and had godlike power? Would you choose benevolence and order or harbour malevolent, self-seeking intentions? Would you ever give it all up?

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