Secretum Secretorum: The Secret of Secrets

Britain, ~600AD: The “Dark Ages” have descended as the light of the late Antiquity of the Western Roman Empire is extinguished by hordes of barbarians. For almost 200 years, Britons have fought to stem this tide, to preserve their nation, but now that their greatest hero, King Arthur, is long gone, and the memory of his feats pass into myth, there seems little hope. In this climate of dread and uncertainty, an old monk, the last person alive to have spoken to a Grail Knight, retells his encounter of the old and dying Perceval, the last Knight of the Round Table, and his tale of the Grail Quest and the final battle of King Arthur.It is a story within a story within a story, the greatest story of all. The story of all that has been, all that is, and all that will be. A story that will reveal the greatest secret of them all:The secret of secrets.Excalibur meets the Bible, meets Homer, meets Heart of Darkness. An epic saga, steeped in the writings of historians, poets, writers, and philosophers, from antiquity to the 20th century, that links the broad sweep of ancient history from the Genesis of Man to the bloody Dark Ages and beyond.

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