Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (short story)

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Main character(s):	Life
Featuring:	Angels, Intrepid
Main setting:	The Shadow Spire
Key crew
Publisher:	Obverse Books
Writer:	Jacob Black
Release details
Part of:	The Book of the Peace Dossier
Release date:	25 November 2018
Format:	Online vignette
Faction Paradox
← Previous	Daring Initiation

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing was the fifth promotional short story released in The Book of the Peace Dossier.

Summary

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Characters

• Life
• Time
• Fate
• The enemy
• Death
• Voyager
• Life's Angels
• Kifah
• Gustav
• Intrepid

References

• Early breeding-engines stank of steaming grease.

Notes

• The Eternals Life and Fate previously featured in Chris McKeon's unlicensed completion of Craig Hinton's Time's Champion. The idea of Chronovores being Life's agents originates from Time's Champion, where Kronos is Life's champion.

Continuity

• Death first appeared in PROSE: Timewyrm: Revelation and Time first appeared in PROSE: Set Piece.
• Life has a "six-folded home". (PROSE: The Quantum Archangel)
• Some of Life's followers are Kithriarchs. (PROSE: Lungbarrow)
• Life's followers who survived "the Architect and his Anchoring (PROSE: The Book of the War, Christmas on a Rational Planet) remember the first parahuman brigades (COMIC: 4-D War) and the killer cats of the south. (PROSE: The Return of the King, et al.)
• Life shakes her head like an avatroid (PROSE: Lungbarrow) would to a childe. (PROSE: Of the City of the Saved..., Against Nature)
• The Voyager skins and flays the occasional "self-titled wizard seeking immortality". (COMIC: Voyager, Once Upon a Time-Lord)
• The Shadow Spire is a place of refuge for Faction Paradox. (PROSE: The Story So Far...)
• Intrepid was previously mentioned in PROSE: Daring Initiation.

External links

• Official Hark! The Herald Angels Sing page at Obverse Books