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Anathema

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Fraa Erasmas is a young avout monk living in the Concent (once called a Convent) of Saint Edhar, a refuge for mathematicians and philosophers. This monastery protects scholars from the pernicious influences of the outside secular world, both with its ancient stone walls and its complex rituals and traditions. Over the centuries, cities and states have risen and fallen within the Concent's walls. Three times, during the darkest eras of history, violence born of superstition and ignorance invaded and devastated the closed society of mathematical science. However, the scholar-monks managed to adapt after these catastrophes, becoming more ascetic and less dependent on technology and materialistic ideology. Erasmas, however, is unafraid of the outside world, for all these tragic events have become ancient history. Once every decade comes the day of Apert, when the gates of the Concent swing wide open to welcome curious laypeople, the Exts, and to release the monastic avout into the world. On his first Apert, Erasmas eagerly awaits the reunion with family and friends he hasn't seen since entering the Concent. But less than a week later, both his old life and the one he's embraced will be on the brink of dangerous change. Powerful forces threaten the peaceful and stable lives of the monastic scholars. Only a fragile alliance between the avout and the Exts can resist them. One by one, Erasmas's colleagues emerge from the safety of the Concent, hoping to avert a global catastrophe. Accidentally shouldering the fate of the world, Erasmas finds himself the protagonist in a drama that will determine the future of all existence, embarking on an extraordinary journey that will take him to the most dangerous and inhospitable corners of an unfamiliar planet... and far beyond.
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