Babylon’s Cursed Cup

A Nabium Investigation into Sacred Murder

De: A. E. Voss

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

On the holiest day in Babylon, the gods fall silent.
As drums thunder and crowds surge through the Ishtar Gate for the New Year festival, High Priestess Ishuni raises a golden cup to bless the city—and collapses before the temple of Marduk, choking on poisoned wine. Within moments, jubilation turns to panic. Temple priests cry sacrilege, palace officials smell rebellion, and whispers race along the Processional Way: someone has murdered the voice of the god.
To prevent Babylon from tearing itself apart, the king’s council turns to Nabium—wealthy merchant, shrewd observer of men, and an investigator trusted by both palace and temple. Nabium prefers silver to sermons, but he knows the law well enough to fear it: if he fails to uncover the truth, the city may demand blood, and it could be his.
Following the faint traces of an exotic poison and the broken trail of clay tablets, Nabium finds himself snared in a web of power and desire: a charming noble lover with everything to lose, a rival priest who may covet Ishuni’s office, a smiling merchant whose ledgers hide deadly secrets, and a palace vizier called the viper in the streets. At the heart of it all lies one terrified junior priestess—and the missing words of a speech Ishuni never lived to deliver.
In a world ruled by oaths and stone-carved laws, Nabium must weigh tablets, testimonies, and his own conscience to expose a conspiracy that reaches from the temple altars to the palace throne. The gods will not speak.
The clay will.