A truly innovative Bible Atlas that will help readers visualize the journeys, events, and locations of the Bible and will bring the Good Book to life in an entirely new way

This informative atlas is a highly inventive, user-friendly book, with lively and entertaining commentary, and peppered with little-known facts about the Bible. Nick Page applies the features of contemporary mapping styles to journeys and locations: following Paul's journeys on a Roman Road map complete with distance chart; linking Biblical sites to the panorama of Jerusalem today with 3D relief mapping; and locating the latest archaeological and historical research findings, Google Earth–style.

A whippoorwill cry was heard in the night sky. Which was a bit odd since whippoorwills didn't live in Eneti. Zoloto, the alchemist, Linder, the wardrobe sized man and Hutch proceed into the giant puzzle box that held her eminence's reserves of gold. Its true size was hidden like an iceberg, ten times as much space below the water as above it. The five men walked down the long staircase to the bottom. Hutch was made to lead the way, so he could not kick anyone down the stairs, as he otherwise would surely do. Because the gold was so shiny, radiant and great in quantity that one candle was enough to light the great space.
“I hope you all understand the pain that it brings me to destroy so much gold.” Zoloto told the others. “I would much rather take it all with me, but that is just not possible.”
“You could take one bar.” suggested Linder, who was weighed down by a bag of the alchemist's supplies, “As a souvenir.”
Zoloto moved his gums around “I would... but if I do that then it is a short leap to everyone trying to carry as much as they can out of here. No, no it's better if none is taken.” Zoloto let out a sigh. “Did you know that one ounce of gold can be made into such a thin sheet that it can cover up to 300 square feet? So thin that you could see through it.” No one responded to this and they marched down the rest of the stairs in silence.
At the bottom of the stairs Linder dropped the bag he was carrying. The alchemist pulled a small collapsible table out of it and set it up. Linder then unlocked the manacle on the wardrobe sized man's wrist and connected it to a bar supporting the stairs. Zoloto sized up his defeated opponent. He looked in disgust at this insignificant man who would dare oppose him. He let out a fake cough. “Goodbye Mr...”
“Aaarrrragh!”
Zoloto was cut off by a scream of pain by Linder. Zoloto turned to see Linder recalling his hand from a stack of gold bars. “The individual bars have protective charms also?” Linder gave an embarrassed nod. “It is of no matter, alchemy is not effected by charms. Come.” The three headed back up the stairs, leaving Hutch and the alchemist behind.
The alchemist carefully placed vials of powders and liquids on his table. In the center of the table he placed a small tin. He pulled a cord on the side of the tin and flickering flames came out of the top. Above the flaming tin he set up a small grill. And on that grill he placed a piece of lead, in the same shape as a bar of gold. The alchemist looked up at Hutch and gave a big goofy looking grin. Hutch had no idea if the man had a way of survive the transformation of the gold that was to kill himself, or if the alchemist was content to die performing his craft. Hutch pulled at the manacle on his wrist, it was solidly made and wasn't going anywhere. He checked his pockets even though he knew they were empty. He tried to reach for a bar of gold that could be thrown at the alchemist, but they were all out of reach.
When Zoloto got to the top of the stairs he stepped out of the inter, wooden, depository to see his men being killed by Findland soldiers. One man was frantically spraying pinewood poison on a torch when he was cut down by a solider unaffected by the flashes. His men carried weapons on them but they were greatly outmatched by the heavy professional gear the soldiers bore. The Findland soldiers had not yet retaken the outer, stone depository, but they would soon. All of this he saw in a second, and when he saw it without a moment of hesitation he turned and closed the door of the wooden depository (It was much easier to close than to open). Linder and the wardrobe sized man were still inside.
Linder pounded on the door that had just closed in front of him. “He shut us in!” He reported to the wardrobe sized man. “The alchemist! We have to go stop him!” The wardrobe sized man blocked his path. “What the hell are you doing? You want to die in here?” With a shrug the wardrobe sized man grasped Linder and tossed him like a rag doll over the railing to his death. He immediately realized that he should have tossed Linder further; he had landed right in front of Hutch who was now grabbing at his body. He took off his dragon skin belt and threw it straight down, but Hutch ducked under the stairs. Infuriated, the bear of a man barreled down the stairs.
Hutch frantically pulled Linder closer to him and rummaged through his pockets for the key to the manacles. The alchemist continued on his work undeterred, mixing powders and liquids, talking in a dialect of Trellick that Hutch couldn't understand. Hutch found the key and unlocked himself. Then the wardrobe sized man landed in front of him, he had jumped down over half the distance of the stairs, it should have at least broken his legs but hadn't. Hutch grabbed the dragon shark weapon sticking out of the ground between them. But as he pulled it back to strike it became limp and belt-like in his hand

Death and destruction rules the kingdom of a young prince. His quest to redeem his people, uncovers his father’s dark secret, that in order to spare the Prince at birth, the King gave a young girl to a fiend ruling the netherworld. Discovering the Kingdom’s liberty is linked with the enslaved girls freedom, the Prince sets out to destroy the Beast, rescue the girl and restore his peoples’ freedom.

SYNOPSIS

The DRAGON is attacking the kingdom. King ESTMUND is tricked by GWENDAMORT, to give him his son and he exchanges the prince with forest-girl QUENBY. Prince MAC CUILLAUME, the chosen one with an inherent sunstone, the key to the Gate of Aasa, is to stop chaos and open the lost dimension of living happily ever after. Quenby revives the prince in the forest, they fall in love. The epic task can only be completed together. Gwendamort is stopped by a dwarf to marry them in sham wedding. Cuillaume leaves stubbornly alone to the gate. After saving a mammoth cub from dragons he finds in the forest dwelling where Quenby is kept the mud-cleansing to be a hoax. HYLDA, HELLEN and FRIDISWID mock Quenby, that the The Dragon is close, and that her love will never come to save her. While escaping dream-world during the chase Quenby falls to river-abyss and becomes a water-lily. Prince releases Lily as crawfish, but Gwendamort takes her to underworld to carry on chaos and stop the gate opening make an end to his rule. Cuillaume follows as Hands. Lily helps him with his impossible tasks. There the magic ring gets him as a King and giant to battle the dragon. They escape with sunstone that the evil had hid in the calf’s brain. When the Prince is in the battle Quenby agrees with The Prince that he needs to find his head. After prince and Quenby are wed witches hypnotize and steel Quenby to be sealed with the dragon as a new constellation in the Milky Way. Cuillaume is gliding as falcon with Syward to war the dragon to free Quenby. They interpret the ring with giantic iron book to stop the dragon from swallowing what’s born from the Egg, the new dimension of endlessness. On the Smithy of the Egghill, the coming Battle of Dawn is trumpeted to action. Cuillaume jumps to saddle. Quenby is riveted to the dragon and the prince rides his iron horse through the dragon’s mouth hooking the dragon to the ground with the raised spear. He revives Quenby with kisses: „Can’t die like that, die like a hero.” Quenby:„You have saved me and the whole universe.” Hundreds of thousands cheer as Cuillaume carries her up the Egghill. Quenby: “You are a mighty army the end of chaos.” Cuillaume: „It is time to open the gate, the cause of All Things.” Syward crowns them as: “True king and queen forever”. When the first rays burst from the rising solstice sun they open the Megalith, the Gate of Aasa with The Sunstone and The Ring. At down, the eing procession follows The New Royalty to the quintessence of the Happily Ever After. The crowd calms, and raven takes the sunstone to a family of giants.

Written by Jaanus Silla
Drawings by Rauno Thomas Moss