If you visit the Temple and ask nicely for forgiveness, you might get itâ€”assuming you arenâ€™t Lord Archias and you havenâ€™t killed the Goddessâ€™s favorite musician, Lysippus.

Downfall of the Gods

If you visit the Temple and ask nicely for forgiveness, you might get itâ€”assuming you arenâ€™t Lord Archias and you havenâ€™t killed the Goddessâ€™s favorite musician, Lysippus. But even goddesses are expected to follow certain rules, and as much as she wants to punish Lord Archias it seems her troublesome, all-powerful father forbids it. So the Goddess will just have to get around that by forgiving Lord Archias if he can manage some simpleâ€”or, rather, seemingly impossibleâ€”tasks. A Goddess has to do what a goddess has to do.

And in World Fantasy Award winner K. J. Parkerâ€™s sharply inventive new novella Downfall of the Gods that means everything from soothing supernatural egos to accompanying the argumentative Lord Archias on an epic quest to save his soulâ€¦and get her own way. As the Goddess and her mortal charge make their way across the world to the Land of the Dead, a host of divine surprises await them. Could what they find at the end be the downfall of the gods themselves? Only time will tell. This is a story Parker fans wonâ€™t want to miss.

Downfall of the Gods