Jove Hendricks wishes he had never moved to Shangbei: it's too hot and humid and the religious conflicts are even more intense than in his hometown Hamberwa. Soon war looms in this post-robot-apocalypse world of church politics and intrigue. Jove's boss, the Grand Priestess of the Good Faith sect, teams up with her allies against the Mukol doomsday faith, which promises relief from worldly misery by destroying the cause of all human suffering: the earth itself. On top of the political bickering, Jove suffers from a recurring nightmare in which he sees a place he dubbed the "Dome of Souls" - a...

Hagen Patterson, trained as a chemist, has a secret: he is also an alchemist, seeking the key to understanding the human mind and body. Hagen is obsessed with brewing potions, quite aware that his obsession results from the fact that he feels he has to live up to his name. Hagen: the antagonist from Richard Wagner's "Ring of the Nibelung" operas. Hagen has never met his father and his mother Emma refuses to tell him anything. What Hagen does not know is that his father has been watching over him all his life. He is a demon possessing Emma. When Juliana, Hagen's unrequited love, teases him...

The Captain of the Luminous is mad. A solar flare tore his ship apart and killed all his crew members. He is creeping back to earth in his crippled vessel for eleven years already - all alone. Until he intercepts a distress call from an uncharted planet in the middle of nowhere - four stranded humans beg to be rescued from a haunted world. Each night a peculiar "dark matter" shrouds the planet and troubles the Captain's dreams. The substance lets the Captain relive his agonizing decline into semi-madness after the accident on his ship. Not only that, the "dark matter" also shows him the most...

"Al," the demon that Hagen Patterson houses already for thirteen years, has finally revealed its true nature. Now Al demands that Hagen give him substance, using his alchemy skills. Hagen would like nothing better than to comply and be rid of Al, but first he has to deal with his foes. Tim Abcott, the dethroned leader of the inner circle of alchemists, collaborates now with the enemy: the head governmental agent Andy Mitchell. Not only that, Abcott has also Hagen's scheming wife Juliana on his side. Caught between human killers and magical beasts - giants, wolfbears and croclihos - from Al's...

"It is the little things that bind us" - Darryl, lead guru of the White Cloud Sect. Floyd Takashimoto sits amidst a collection of little things that might lead to the destruction of Earth. It's the explosive mix of people he calls friends. Darnar, for example, is the unscrupulous Master of the almighty Drug Guild of Tonasa, relentless in his acquisition of power. Marusar is an emotionally unstable "Dome Child" who suffers from her extraordinary gift to see the Dome of Souls, which bestows life- or world-changing revelations. There is Lofgar, an alien from Bahrein, whose mission is to obtain...

From the ashes of the Times of Anarchy, after the near destruction of Earth, rose the system of Jeronimo. It gives the people food, shelter and stability, but keeps them under tight control, erasing everyone who does not conform with the system. Jiro strove to become one of the 72 Keepers of Earth after he received a "Dome" revelation, keeping secret what the "Dome of Souls" -- an entity bestowing revelations both personal and powerful -- showed him. Now that he is a Keeper, he has the power to change things. Never did the Keepers of Jeronimo think that one of their own would turn against...