Publisher's Synopsis
Homage to Thee, dear reader, whose names are manifold, whose forms are holy! Attend ye, gentle audience, thou being of hidden form, to this Epic Melodrama, an engaged and passionate re-telling of Verdi's Aida, chronicling the Adventure of Princess Aida and her Faithful Lover, Radames! In the time of the Pharaohs, under the auspices of the greatest of Gods, free-hearted young acolyte priest, Ur of Artu, had little to do but prepare for his new life of luxury and ease. How did it happen instead that he has become entangled with the reckless daughter of a foreign king, and finds himself running for his life from the full force of the holy Temple? Ur joins his mercenary strengths to those of the fearless General Radames, and the resourceful sorceress Mereb struggles with Princess Aida to rescue her holy land from the slathering talons of an Egyptian demon! Witness herein: True Love!Murder! Math! Gods! Yearning! Demons! Torture! Historical Accuracy! Desperate Escapes! Evil Priests! Rules! Princesses! Helpful Rodents! Nasal Moralizing! A Topless Psychopath! And more!
