THE SHORT OF IT:
Egypt, 8000 years ago. The gods walk among men as titans, powerful beings with passions that move mountains, fix stars in the heavens, and master the forces of life and death. Within this world, the evil god Set betrays and murders his brother Osiris, king of respected Abydos. Set takes all that Osiris once had, including the queen, Isis, the goddess of life and beauty. Isis escapes Set and bends her powers toward bringing her love back from death. In the course of this quest, kingdoms fall, armies clash, and the balance of power between gods and men is altered forever.
THE LONG OF IT:
In the kingdom of Abydos in ancient Egypt, life cannot get any better than it is. The realm is at peace, the people prosper, and justice is abundant. Though the rest of the world subsists in a prehistoric stone age, the Abydans enjoy advanced irrigation techniques, varied crops, and their ceremonial guardsmen carry metal swords. All this is due to the efforts of the king, Osiris, the god of civilization and order. His wife, too, blesses the people, for she is Isis, goddess of love, life and beauty, the most desirable goddess in the pantheon of Ra. Isis and Osiris love each other with unmatched passion. They are one in their world.
But not all is grand in the paragon of states. Set, king of desolate Abu Simbel and god of chaos and the deep desert, boils in jealousy for all Osiris has. Though he is brother to the king, he plots to murder Osiris, steal his kingdom, and work out his pleasures with the widowed queen.
No one can stop him. When the treachery comes, the ceremonial guard of Osiris, captained by Qebera, a simple but loyal farmer, is decimated and scattered. The priests of Abydos are murdered and beheaded. Only Isis keeps her wits in the terror that follows. As the city burns, as she mourns her husband and fears for her future, Isis ensures that the ensigns of kingship are smuggled out of Abydos. Without them, Set cannot rule with legitimacy.
But more escapes Set than a few trinkets of the gods. The Wadjit Eye of Ra, the most powerful ensign of the city, is entrusted to Qebera, who will be hunted for years for its sake. Set cannot even trammel the spirit of his new human subjects. Though murdered and starved by him and his Setim thugs, the people show backbone the god of deserts did not know they had. They rescue Isis and rise up against their tormenter in guerrilla war.
Freed by the rebels, Isis devotes her life and considerable power to finding the lost body of her husband, then bringing it back from the dead.
ISIS WEPT explores questions of who we are as humans and how we interact with the forces of nature around us. The gods are nature. Though they exhibit enormous power, they are unable to use that power except in ways consistent with their natures. Men, on the other hand, can make themselves, and they do so with vengeance. Armies clash in the conflict between Set and Isis. Kingdoms fall. But man continues, man adapts, man learns that he can govern nature even as nature governs him.
Fantasy - Scenes of sexual violence - Intense scenes of graphic suffering - Action/fantasy violence