Skyborne: Tales of the God-Bird

Across ancient empires and forgotten horizons, six mythic beings descend from the clouds, eagles, hawks, thunderbirds, and falcons, each a divine messenger bearing judgment, mercy, or ruin. In this epic anthology, mortals are tested not by swords, but by the sky itself.

A Mesopotamian scribe must bargain with the Zu Bird to reclaim the Tablets of Destiny before time unravels. A condemned philosopher debates Zeus’s Eagle atop a cliff, where wisdom may cost his life. A drought-stricken tribe dances for rain and loses a child to the Thunderbird’s storm-world. An embalmer in Egypt dreams of Horus, who demands truth over dynasty. A crumbling Chinese emperor sees the Red Hawk of Heaven in every mirror, an omen of lost favor. And on the Mongolian steppe, a warlord’s dead son refuses sky burial until betrayal is unearthed.

Each story is a tale of fate versus free will, of crowns weighed against conscience, where the sky does not watch, it judges.

Fans of Madeline Miller, Neil Gaiman, and mythic dark fantasy will find a haunting tapestry of gods, omens, and the mortals who dare answer them.