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What Does It Mean to Awaken in a Broken World?
The Knight Shamans are more than mystics in a post-apocalyptic landscape. Their journey begins with a question: what happens when people awaken to themselves, to the spirit world, and to the responsibilities of rebuilding society?
In The Apocrypha of the Knight Shamans, awakening is never a single moment. It is a process—a difficult movement from inherited assumptions toward a deeper understanding of self, community, and the unseen forces shaping both.
The world of the series has already been shattered by earthquakes, political conflict, social collapse, and forgotten dangers. Yet the books are not only about surviving catastrophe. They ask what survivors do next. When roads, institutions, and familiar rules disappear, people must decide which parts of the old world deserve to be restored and which should be left behind.
The inner awakening
A Knight Shaman must first awaken the spirit society has buried beneath programming, fear, and cultural expectations. That awakening is personal, but it is never merely private. Rodney’s ability to see the spirits of the dead, Peter’s emerging shamanic talent, and Justin Earl Knight’s struggles with his own demons all reveal different paths toward self-knowledge.These characters do not receive simple answers. Their gifts come with obligations. To see more clearly is also to carry more responsibility. A shaman must confront the Other Worlds, interpret what is found there, and determine how spiritual knowledge can guide living people without becoming another form of control.
Demons to banish. Fallen Angels unmasked. Pantheons falling where others are rising. Enemies become lovers and Lovers become enemies.
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Most journeys through time begin with a destination. In CERNON, Book One of an 8 book series, the destination is only the beginning of the mystery.
Sophia Shaman of the Elk Creek Tribe enters the past seeking answers about Cernon’s origin. She expects to uncover an old story, perhaps a forgotten event or a hidden truth buried beneath layers of myth. Instead, she finds herself in a world tens of thousands of years removed from her own, where an ice age is approaching and a small tribe is fighting to survive.
The deeper Sophia moves into this ancient world, the less stable the idea of history becomes. Her journey is not a simple visit to a distant era. It is an encounter with memory itself. Cernon tells her, “You were never really there. You were riding my memories.”
The statement changes everything. Can a memory carry consequences across time?
These questions give the novel one of its central themes: the uncertain relationship between observer and participant. Sophia arrives intending to help, but her presence may be more significant than she realizes. Her compassion draws her toward the endangered tribe, yet every choice she makes could alter the meaning of Cernon’s beginning. The line between discovering history and creating it grows increasingly thin.
Against the pressure of the coming ice age, the novel places enormous philosophical questions inside a very physical struggle. The tribe needs shelter, protection, and hope. Sophia must respond to immediate danger while confronting the possibility that she is part of a much larger pattern.
That tension makes the story more than an adventure into the distant past. It becomes a meditation on whether time carries us forward—or whether we sometimes become the tools through which time reshapes the world.
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Magical Realism. Shamanism. Post-apocalyptic survival. Coming of age. Found Family. All of that and more in a short adventure in future Oregon after the great Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquakes have ravaged the west.
Meet Rodney, a seven year old boy who can see the spirits of the dead. Meet Justin, a mostly-absent father who still wishes the best for his son. Meet AJ, the bridge between them and commander of the militia forces sent to liberate the community of Sutherlin from their evil overlords.
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