Isolation [Dramatized Adaptation]
Author: Chris Rohan, Karen Rohan
Series: Playing Gods #1
Narrator: A Full Cast, Andy Brownstein, Andy Clemence, Bob Payne, Bradley Smith, Casie Platt, Chris Rohan, Christopher Graybill, Colleen Delany, Danny Gavigan, David Coyne, David Jourdan, Emlyn McFarland, Jennifer Hopkins, Joe Brack, Karen Rohan, Kimberly Gilbert, Laura C. Harris, Mary Ditman, Michael John Casey, Mort Shelby, Nanette Savard, Nora Achrati, Rebecca Sheir, Richard Cutting, Richard Rohan, Scott McCormick, Steven Carpenter, Thomas Penny, Tim Carlin, Tony Nam, Yasmin Tuazon
Unabridged: 9 hr 46 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: GraphicAudio
Published: 06/03/2020
Category: Fiction - Fantasy
Synopsis
Xriah and Vylis, two avatars, both empowered with differing superhuman abilities, are repeatedly thrust into wildly varying worlds to do battle on behalf of their respective deities. Though the nature of their deities is shrouded in mystery, both avatars' faith in their purpose is strong and unwavering.
On each successive world they seek one another out, and then it is a battle to the death, despite the fact that both the defeated and victor alike are reborn and plunged into yet another world, to begin the fight all over again.
And as they continue their endless battle the real victims are the inhabitants of the avatars' battlefields.
The avatar Vylis feels nothing but the joy of the game, the sport of defying expectations, and exploiting the true weakness of his nemesis avatar, namely: that Xriah has come to care for the unfortunate denizens of the worlds upon which this world-crushing game is played.
In Playing Gods 1: Isolation, the two bitter opponents unknowingly become trapped on a world cut off from the source of their immortality, the very gods for whom they fight. There will be no re-spawning this time in the brutal game they play. Now for everyone who walks the face of this alien world, inhabitant or intruder, death is absolutely final.
Themes, concepts and tropes from the world of gaming are reinterpreted and explored in depth in Playing Gods, with complex emotional consequences for the creatures who just might live in such a reality.