Lod the Warrior (Lost Civilizations Book 6)

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Lod the fanatical pit slave ranges the Pre-Cataclysmic Earth to confront the Nephilim, the offspring of the fallen angels. Where once seething Lod has passed, no one who lives forgets. Now, down the trails of past battles, Lod travels again. To the Stadium of Swords in Nod, where a god sits among his beauties, watching the slaughter in his glory. To the choking depths of th Lod the fanatical pit slave ranges the Pre-Cataclysmic Earth to confront the Nephilim, the offspring of the fallen angels.

To the choking depths of the mines of Tartarus, where Lod faces a primeval terror that once roamed the stars. To the camp of a slave-hunting giant, seeking the perfect vessel to bear his seed. To the tree of death itself where Lod retrieves a woman to love. Kindle Edition , pages. Published by Amazon Digital Services first published May 18th To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.

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This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Mar 04, Sonja rated it it was amazing Shelves: More adventures of Lod. His faith is his driving force. His desire to slay first born is powerful. I've already downloaded the next book in this series. And what's a series it is! I have finished the six books in the series in five days - I couldn't stop! One person I know put it best. He said that these books are addicting.

They are compelling, interesting, satisfying and thoroughly addicting. I'm at a total loss at what next to read. Book six goes back in time to Lod's life after he escaped from Shamgar where he was a slave and rat bait. It was in Shamgar that he first received Elohim's vision regarding killing Nephilim and burning Shamgar to the ground. He has now become the blade of Elohim; righting wrongs by killing Nephilim who prey on human.

In the first episode we find him in the slave pit of Moloch, a First Born, fighting for his life for the entertainment of Nephilim and Giants. Next we find him in the mines of Tartarus. Mining silver for one of Moloch's son. Moloch wants to first break than kill him, but his son has some ulterior motives Next we find Lod high in a mountain fastness.

He is helping the people build a high hidden stockade to be safe from the headhunters. They are unexpectedly attacked by a Nephilim and his slavers and necromancer; leaving Lod pinned to a wall by a huge javelin and left for dead as they march most of the village away as slaves. Next Lod shows up as a mercenary for the commander of Assus. He is set out to spy on the Zimrians with an Arkite named Hull.

It will be the time of the Blood Moon of Esus a First Born , and the commander wants to know what the Zimrians are up to. In grand style, Lod does his best for Elohim and stirs everything up. Throughout the book, Lod is either the hunter or the hunted. There are times when he is both. He is always true to his role as the blade of Elohim and strikes fear even into the hearts of the First Born. Unfortunately, even though he saves two eligible women, he never gets to settle down and enjoy them. They like him, they think he's a hero and they owe him their lives - so let the boy get lucky.

Even the Giants and the Nephilim get lucky. Sarah would have loved him. Mari would have loved him.

Mari and Sara both had courage. Each would have been a good wife. Mari probably would have hunted with him.

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He should marry Mari in the next book. And about the next book, to answer your question Mr. Heppner, please reconnect Lod with Joash and Lord Uriah, Adah and all the rest to fight the rot Gog started in the cities of men, like Capthalo, Dishon, etc. Because Gog has gone insane it will make it hit or miss with his allies.

Of course, many are dead, either by his own hand, by Lod, Keros, the Behemoth, or have decided to leave like Nylah and the Reavers. I'm sure that between Gog and Yorgash in Poseidonis something interesting could be hatched. Now that many of the older Giants are dead and some of the Gibborim and the slith, I'm sure that Yorgash would like to get a dog in this hunt, so to speak. Just one readers opinion. Again, we have a new cast of characters except for Lod. Heppner builds each character with loving care. Each character in each of the stories is finely crafted to be an individual with appropriate thoughts and feelings that make them all 3D and genuine; whether human, First Born, Nephilim, necromancer, etc.

Even secondary characters are fleashed out, such as Hull the Arkite, who will risk much for gold but not much else, or Balak, a pit fighter, who tries to kill Lod, but when Lod won't cut off his head because he is too humane, Balak has a change of heart about being a slave to the First Born and Nephilim, and with his dying breath, helps Lod to victory. These characters are all credible and believable. And even though Balak had a change of heart, it was credible given the circumstances in the story.

There were no WTF moments anywhere, no innappropriate behaviour moving the story forward. The pacing in the stories was as swift as ever; broken by heightened by stretches of dramatic tension. At one point in time you think Lod is dead. That is not good. With all four stories you dive in and get lost, only to dive back out again when one is finished.

You quickly dive back in again, not wanting to be unconnected with Lod and this glorious world. When you finally dive out at the end of the last story and know that the experience is over, the first thing I did before writing this review was to look at other Vaughn Heppner books, hoping for something similar.

There's a hole where this series used to be. I need to find something to fill it. Anyway, I would heartily recommend all six books in this series to anyone who likes epic fantasy, angels, mythology, or just a thumping good read of the first order. You won't be sorry.

Dibble was clearing earth from around a large stone slab when his pick hit something hard and the monotony of the clay was broken by a vivid flash of green: The pair immediately put down their picks, and after placing an excited call to Davis and Stocker they began to carefully sweep up the soil and dust. They knew they were standing atop something substantial, but even then they did not imagine just how rich the discovery would turn out to be. Over the next six months, the archaeologists uncovered bronze basins, weapons and armor, but also a tumble of even more precious items, including gold and silver cups; hundreds of beads made of carnelian, amethyst, amber and gold; more than 50 stone seals intricately carved with goddesses, lions and bulls; and four stunning gold rings.

This was indeed an ancient grave, among the most spectacular archaeological discoveries in Greece in more than half a century—and the researchers were the first to open it since the day it was filled in.

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Yet remarkably little is known of the beginnings of Mycenaean culture. The Pylos grave, with its wealth of undisturbed burial objects and, at its bottom, a largely intact skeleton, offers a nearly unprecedented window into this time—and what it reveals is calling into question our most basic ideas about the roots of Western civilization. Before the eighth century B. At the end of the 19th century, a German-born businessman named Heinrich Schliemann was determined to prove otherwise.

He then turned his attention to the Greek mainland, hoping to find the palace of Agamemnon. Near the ruins of the great walls at Mycenae, in the Argolid Peninsula, Schliemann found a circle of graves containing the remains of 19 men, women and children, all dripping with gold and other riches. Homer describes other palaces, too, notably that of King Nestor, at Pylos. But in the s, a landowner noticed old stone blocks near the summit of a hill near Pylos, and Konstantinos Kourouniotis, director of the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, invited his friend and collaborator Carl Blegen, of the University of Cincinnati, to investigate.

Blegen began excavations in April On his very first day, he uncovered a hoard of clay tablets, filled with an unreadable script known as Linear B, which had also been found on Crete, the largest of the Aegean islands. After World War II, Blegen went on to discover a grid of rooms and courtyards that rivals Mycenae in size and is now the best-preserved Bronze Age palace on the Greek mainland, not to mention a significant tourist attraction.

Blegen professor of Greek archaeology.

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Davis walks with me to the hilltop, and we pause to enjoy the gorgeous view of olive groves and cypress trees rolling down to a jewel-blue sea. Davis has white-blond hair, freckles and a dry sense of humor, and he is steeped in the history of the place: Alongside Stocker, he has been working in this area for 25 years.

As we look out to sea, he points out the island of Sphacteria, where the Athenians beat the Spartans during a fifth-century B. The stone walls of the palace now rise just a meter from the ground, but it was originally a vast two-story complex, built around B. Visitors would have passed through an open courtyard into a large throne room, Davis explains, with a central hearth for offerings and decorated with elaborately painted scenes including lions, griffins and a bard playing a lyre. The Linear B tablets found by Blegen, deciphered in the s, revealed that the palace was an administrative center that supported more than 50, people in an area covering all of modern-day Messenia in western Greece.

Davis points out storerooms and pantries in which thousands of unused ceramic wine cups were found, as well as workshops for the production of leather and perfumed oils. Echoes of Homer are everywhere. Tablets and animal bones that Blegen found in the archives room recall a feast in which 11 cattle were sacrificed to Poseidon, while on the other side of the building is a perfectly preserved terra-cotta bathtub, its interior painted with a repeating spiral motif.

The palace was destroyed in a fire around B.

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Davis and Stocker are interested not in the ruination of the palace, however, but in its beginnings. For several hundred years before the palace was built, the region was dominated by the Minoans, whose sophisticated civilization arose on Crete, with skilled artisans and craftsmen who traded widely in the Aegean, Mediterranean and beyond.

By contrast, the people of mainland Greece, a few hundred miles to the north across the Kythera Strait, lived simple lives in small settlements of mud-brick houses, quite unlike the impressive administrative centers and well-populated Cretan villages at Phaistos and Knossos, the latter home to a maze-like palace complex of over a thousand interlocking rooms. The mainland population swelled; settlements grew in size, number and apparent wealth, with ruling elites becoming more cosmopolitan, exemplified by the diverse riches they buried with their dead.

Although thieves looted the tholos long before it was rediscovered in modern times, from what was left behind—seal stones, miniature gold owls, amethyst beads—it appears to have been stuffed with valuables to rival those at Mycenae. It was a remarkable thing to happen. Yet partly as a result of the building of the palaces themselves, atop the razed mansions of early Mycenaeans, very little is known of the people and culture that gave birth to them.

The tholos itself went out of use around the time the palace was built. Whoever the first leaders here were, Davis and Stocker had assumed, they were buried in this plundered tomb. Until, less than a hundred yards from the tholos, the researchers found the warrior grave. Davis thinks they were at the local museum. Dibble recalls that they were in line at the bank. For Davis and Stocker, the challenge of the find soon set in.

Suddenly, we were faced with this huge mess. But after two weeks, everyone was exhausted. About a week in, Davis was excavating behind the stone slab. Stocker thought he was teasing, but he turned around with a golden bead in his palm. It was the first in a flood of small, precious items: They excavated in pairs, always with one person on watch, ready to cover precious items if someone approached.

And yet it was impossible not to feel elated, too. It was like, Oh my god, what will come next?! The discovery of a golden cup, as lovely as the day it was made, proved an emotional moment. If you forget that, it becomes an exercise in removing things from the ground. In late June , the scheduled end to their season came and went, and a skeleton began to emerge—a man in his early 30s, his skull flattened and broken and a silver bowl on his chest. Stocker got used to working alongside him in that cramped space, day after day in the blazing summer sun. I talked to him: Griffin, help me to be careful.

In August, Stocker ended up in the local medical clinic with heatstroke. In September, she was rewarded with a gold-and-agate necklace that the archaeologists had spent four months trying to liberate from the earth. By November, the grave was finally empty. Every gram of soil had been dissolved in water and passed through a sieve, and the three-dimensional location of every last bead photographed and recorded.

Inside, the room is packed with white tables, wooden drawers, and countless shelves of skulls and pots: Still the organizational force behind the Pylos project, Stocker looks after not just the human members of the team but a troupe of adopted animals, including the mascot, a sleek gray cat named Nestor, which she rescued from the middle of the road when he was 4 weeks old.

She opens box after box to show their contents—one holds hundreds of individually labeled plastic bags, each containing a single bead. Another yields seal stones carved with intricate designs: From separate wrappings of acid-free paper she reveals a bronze dagger, a knife with a large, square blade perhaps used for sacrifices and a great bronze sword, its hilt decorated with thousands of minute fragments of gold. She surveys the room: From jewelry to gilded weapons, a sampling of the buried artifacts researchers are using to fill in the details about the social currents in Greece at the time the griffin warrior lived By 5W Infographics; Research by Virginia Mohler.

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