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Gill couldn’t even dream of the nefarious consequences the arrival of the Sigians had on the Aztecs, who associated Kirk’an with their feathered serpent god, Quetzalcoatl. The change originating in Xochicalco was a turning point in the Mesoamerican religious dogmas: Quetzalcoatl had lost his appearance as a feathered serpent and became Sigian, easy to confuse with a human. Several hundred years later, Moctezuma was convinced that the white gods had returned and didn’t attack Hernando Cortes when he could have crushed him—hence his empire was easily conquered. A civilization disappeared due to this little incident.

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The Antyran name for black holes.

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The temples had never been able to suppress the Ijmahal death ritual, so they morphed it—with great success—into the “Guide of Light” litany in the Book of Creation Inrumiral. No one but the archivists had the original ritual as it was gathered by Laixan in his writings from the memories of the mythical Azaric. According to Azaric, the text was much older, being transmitted orally by the ancient aromaries since time immemorial.

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The drughira was a long, heavy mace with metal nodules. It was the main weapon of the wandabian fighters.

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A Rigulian ship’s commander.

Table of Contents

THE

SIGIAN BRACELET

CHAPTER 1.

CHAPTER 2.

CHAPTER 3.

CHAPTER 4.

CHAPTER 5.

CHAPTER 6.

CHAPTER 7.

CHAPTER 8.

CHAPTER 9.

CHAPTER 10.

CHAPTER 11.

CHAPTER 12.

CHAPTER 13.

CHAPTER 14.

CHAPTER 15.

Notes