Cobweb and Ivory[]
”Cobweb and Ivory” is a story by Nate Bumber published in the anthology The Book of the Enemy edited by Simon Bucher-Jones for Obverse Books.
Synopsis[]
It is said God is in the details, but the Great Houses don’t believe in God. For them, instead, “the Enemy” is in the details. A poor traveller, lost and confused is dosed with a potent drug that causes him to explore some of the finer details of existence and perhaps come face-to-face with his destiny... and a wooly mammoth.
Notes[]
- ”Cobweb And Ivory” bears a great deal of similarity to the mysterious “Saragossa Manuscript” first mentioned in the Appendices of The Book of the War.
- The central figure of the tale possesses both an “Altertime Doorway” and a “transcendant lock pick” suggesting that he is a Member of the Great Houses.