The Bleikovat Event

2012 | Science Fiction/Fantasy

Among the close-kin clans of western farms and gelf ranches of Malfesian Murians times are good. Full barns, fat gelf calves and large families thrive among the sprawling grain fields and hamlets around the river from which they derive their name—the Feldon. Word comes with the trade caravans that times are not so good in the regions far to the east: tumultuous changes stir among the remote province of Bleikovia. Old timer Feldovats shrug it off as one more squabble between clans over boundaries or water rights…too distant to affect the Feldovats. Western Feldovats learn too late—it is no local squabble. Outnumbered and unprepared, Feldovats resist a hoard bent on plunder and conquest. Days of battle along the Feldon River stain the riverbanks in green Murian blood. In the finals days of exhausted fighting, Judikar Klarvko Celo of the Feldovat Clan Klarvkon is fatally stabbed with slow-acting selvon poison. The Judikar’s consort Klarvkaa Etkaa becomes Regentkaa. With Celovat Field Commander Korvo Celo serving as her advisor, she leads the demoralized Feldovat survivors on a gruesome ill-prepared winter trek through high mountain passes of ice and blizzard snow in an attempt to elude the Green Dragon forces of the Bleikovats. Etkaa’s only son, Klarvko Celo II, helps spirit Feldovat young across a remote mountain exodus toward Eedov Province. The battered, starving Feldovats reach the Malfesian coast at Eedov City only to be confronted with their implacable enemy determined to destroy the remaining Klarvkon rabble. Taking passage on crowded lumbering Maalonovion freighters, Feldovats and Malfesian refugees set sail. On arrival in Maalon City they are welcomed among their Maalon hosts, and settle into a new life.
But famine and a pandemic pestilence stir old hates. The enraged Overseers of Bleikovia move against the Klarvkons, bringing bloodshed to Maalonovia. The exiles from the Feldon must fight still again, but starvation and plague across the Planete Myr make this a different war from the Feldon… a na’ä blikovat… the Bleikovvat Phenomenon… an event with unexpected consequences none could have foreseen. Before the killing is exhausted, the Regentkaa Klarvkaa and her son are swept onto the Maalon throne, setting the Klarvkon Dynasty and the Murians toward an intergalactic golden age, and a star-flung destiny the farmer-herder Feldovat could never have envisaged.

Hawk MacKinney (Author)