His death was tied to a demon’s……and his boon turned into a curseWill he still sacrifice himself to save mankind?Aru thought of Nemi as a friend, as a co-disciple who worshipped alongside him. But could he have been more wrong?When they both received their boons from goddess of time, all Aru sought was knowledge of past and future. But Nemi had different plans.While Aru was imprisoned, … of past and future. But Nemi had different plans.
While Aru was imprisoned, sedated and separated from his pregnant wife, Nemi time traveled through the ages, writing a gory tale of death and destruction. His latest journey targeted the last survivors of the human race.
Aru could either escape the talons of the demon or stay and save the world. But the price of doing the right thing was too high.
You will love this prequel sci-fi fantasy story because it’s a time travel tale with a twist.
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This fast paced thriller will take you on one wild ride through time perfectly setting the tone for this amazing series and showing how easily power can corrupt. I highly recommend this read to all readers. Fans of the series will love this addition since it helps show why there is the division of good and evil and for those that are new to the series it will definitely spark the need to read them all!
Disciples of Trikaal
Time Travelers series Prequel
Varun Sayal
Oct 2019
80 pages
Sci-fi Time Travel
Provided by Author
The cover of this little prequel is amazing and so appropriate for this book. This should catch eyes everywhere. Too bad it’s not for a longer book, cause this cover will sell books.
The story is just as unique as everything else we’ve gotten from this author. The influence of his Indian cultural background is evident and used very well throughout as is his mathematical education. This is the creation story and prequel for the Time Travelers series, which I have reviewed previously here and here. This sets the stage for what we read in the short stories and novels of the time-traveling novels of the series Mr. Sayal has crafted so well. I would have preferred that this were longer and had gone into a bit more of the stories of these two disciples locked together in their yin and yang roles. But what the author has provided is created with the precision of just exactly what we need to understand the past and just how much we need to whet our appetites to want more. Recommended.
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“Disciples Of Trikaal” was my Introduction to Sayal’s writing.
The author packed in an immense amount of world building and character development into a very small package.
Nemi is a case study showing that absolute power corrupts absolutely.
I was entertained by this tale and only have one complaint. The story is too short!
In the interest of transparency: I received a free review copy of this book and I am voluntarily sharing this review. It is my own honest opinion.
Unexpected and fresh!
Aru and Nemi were in their seventh year of hard penance to Trikaal Devi, the Goddess of Time, when she awoke in response to their devotions. The men’s goal was to be granted a boon for their long dedication and the goddess did not disappoint. Aru requested he be taught the skill of seeing into the future and the past. Nemi, at first requesting immortality, was denied, so subsequently asked that the goddess teach him to time travel. She immediately whisked them both out of their mortal bodies to a place where time moved at a different pace and where they were schooled for a thousand years on the techniques they’d requested. When they were returned to their bodies mere hours had passed. As a caveat to the goddess granting their wishes the men agreed to their lifelines being tied one to the other: if one died, so did the other. The two men separate and return to their own homes and families with their new gifts.
For Aru, being able to read the future did not mean that anyone would actually believe him, and when he foresaw that the dam near his village was about to break and deluge the area, he tries to warn his neighbors. He and his pregnant wife are publicly scorned and driven out of their home to hide in an abandoned shack far away.
On the other hand, Nemi takes full advantage of his ability to travel to the future and past and inhabited the bodies of wealthy, famous, and privileged people living in the time-slice he selected to visit. He possessed the bodies of great kings and using his new found power and privilege he embarked on reigns of terror, death, and destruction. The power and possibilities turn his mind to evil madness, and fearing Aru might come to harm, Nemi inhabits the body of the king of this own time-slice and imprisons Aru in a jail cell at the palace. Separated from his beloved Rutuja, Aru can only visit her and his newborn son in his time reading visions. But Aru comes up with a plan.
This is a prequel to the “Time Travelers” series and the author unfolds the exciting backstory of time-demons and time-readers, two creations that are integral to the series. The mythology involved is still pretty new to me so the path the story takes is unexpected and fresh (just as the first two books in the series are.) It is not necessary to read the prequel before beginning the series, I read it after Book 2 and maybe that is why some of the revelations were so enjoyable for me. I highly recommend this story as well as the entire series.
Aru and Nemi were two very close friends who had spent years meditating and praying to the Goddess of time, the eternal time traveller Trikaal Devi, so when she finally appeared to them they asked her for a boon which she granted them saying they could only choose one strand of time travel though as they could not handle more. Aru chose to read time whilst Nemi chose to time travel hoping to still be able to gain immortality by casting this choice. Now they could both use their boons to do good in the world or they could turn their boons to evil. Their only other condition was that their clocks were to be synchronised to one another, so if one died the other died too. This did not worry Aru, however Nemi wanted to become invincible and would not allow for this clause to deter him from becoming a world tyrant. The actions he took to safeguard his life were the last poor Aru expected from his friend, and in the end still did not serve the evil one at all. Aru was the only one able to stop the demon of time Nemi had turned into, bringing chaos and death to thousands of people in all time spans to which he travelled. I really enjoyed this amazing prequel sci-fi fantasy novel about time travel and time demons whereby greed for power is so well depicted and showing how power can corrupt. I really have to read further into the series as I find time travel interesting and what could be done with such a power to be very challenging.