I'll do a magic trick, you'll see.
Hi people! Last week I didn't upload a video. Sorry, you know: the holidays,
Christmas Eve, running about shopping, eating here and there... I had no time
to prepare a video, so I'll make it up to you by uploading some speedpainting this
week or the next one, okay? Well, it was time to go back to the channel, so today I'll
show you the book I just finished reading.
It's HIJAS DE LILITH: El Legado de la Sangre by Rafael de la Rosa.
You'll say "Gah, Liber, dude, you're a stinky egocentric, why are you showing us a book whose cover
you designed." Well, NO. No... I'm showing it to you because the story inside
is the real star of this book. It's so cool, and now I'll tell you
what's it about. Here's the synopsis: "NOTHING COULD PREPARE YOU
FOR THE COVEN. Lidia just found out that she's a witch. A mediocre witch.
But her whole life falls apart when she's dragged into
a centuries-long fight. In a world with ancient gods, with no one
to trust, she'll have to try her best to survive. Hunters willing to do anything
to bring their goddess back to life. An internal war between witches. A prophecy
about to be fulfilled." I'll tell you a bit about how
the magic system works here. This I like a lot, because
I'm the blood idiot: here the witches' magical system works through
their blood. The power of magic in your blood
works by percentage, so if you have at least a 50% of blood
inherited from the Ancient One, Lilith, then you're a witch. Thus men
can only come to have a 50% tops; women
will always be more powerful because they, having two X chromosomes,
can inherit twice as much blood from Lilith or Eve, so...
The writer is a neurobiologist, I think, if I recall correctly, so he'd know
how to explain it much better. I try to explain it as I understand it, kinda...
It's actually pretty simple. I'll explain it with pictures, just give me
a moment to pick my notebook...
I'm so proud of my sketches. Look, in the beginning of times, there was
a war among primeval gods. They all battled against the First God, and then
they fled away in a massive exodus to other worlds, including ours.
Nowadays, some of these gods and their servants are the ones
ruling our world without humankind knowing.
So, after them, straggling, the goddess Aztarte was entering our world.
And see, right while she was crossing in, she encountered Eve and
Lilith. These two were human women from the old times, you know,
Adam's wives, one came first and the other after...
So Eve had a son, and Lilith had a daughter, and Eve's son
was jealous of Lilith's daughter and killed her. So after seeing Lilith's grief over
her dead daughter, Aztarte took pity and gave the blood of her heart to the
little girl, who came back to life with the goddess' powers within. However, that
costed Aztarte her life, who remained dead stiff forever, trapped between two worlds,
see, with one half of her body inside our reality and the other half in another.
Okay? Okay, then centuries pass by,
and that's how the blood magic works. Magical blood is the one
derived from Aztarte's heart, now running
through the veins of Lilith's descendants, so to be a witch, you must have
at least a 50% of blood inherited from Aztarte, so
men can only have as much as a 50%, due to the Y chromosome,
and they'll never be as powerful as, say, a witch with more
percentage of Lilith. But, if a man and a woman with magical blood do the
Gnaka Gnaka and casually conceive a girl --this is highly
unusual, but every century or so, a little girl with a 100% of Aztarte's blood is conceived.
So what happens? If by any chance
the blood of this super powerful baby finds its way back to the heart of
Aztarte's corpse, Aztarte will resurrect, and what happens when she comes back to life?
Her mind and blood will start roaring inside the veins of
every witch in the world who surpasses a certain percentage of magical blood,
and they'll die. Aztarte will kill them with terrible pain, and make them
commit mass suicide. Then Aztarte will reach the
other gods and will make a total MESS.
So a lot of people are watching out,
to slay that superpowerful witch the moment she's conceived. They'll kill her, and some want...
Depending on what they want to do with the girl, several factions have formed
from the very moment Aztarte gave her blood
to the girl. We have the neutral ones: the witches
minding their own bussiness, lalalee lalalaa, and live their lives peacefully, okay?
Then we have the ones against Aztarte's resurrection, who are watching out,
ready to kill the little witch as soon as she's born, or even before.
And burn her, burn the witch so her blood never, ever reaches
back to Aztarte's heart. They're trying to keep the Goddess from coming back
to life by any means. And then there's the Hunters, some of which
have Aztarte's blood, only in a small percentage, so
the goddess' return wouldn't affect them, and they're like a club of nasty, fanatic dudebros...
--really, they're scary as hell-- who devote themselves to
killing, hunting and torturing witches in search of information about the baby girl
from the prophecy. They intend to resuscitate the goddess with the
girl's blood, so Aztarte lives again and completes her passing into our world
to slay every powerful witch and every other gods still
roaming the hidden corners of planet Earth.
What for? Yeah, that would give the planet back to its
rightful heirs: the common humans.
And we have our protagonist, Lidia, an ordinary young woman who
lives with her boyfriend in an apartment and is looking for a job... and suddenly one day
she goes to get a blood test and finds out she's a witch. A rather mediocre witch with a
thin percentage of Aztarte's blood, so she can't do half of what the other witches can.
But something strange happens to her:
her blood's power fluctuates. One moment she has
a 50% of witch's blood, and the next she goes up to 70-80%.
Intrigued, these neutral witches take her in and start teaching her
the secrets of blood magic, while Lidia tries to discover
what the hell is up with her, and tries to survive and stay out of the radar of these murdering witches
and the hunters, lest it all ends up in a Greek tragedy.
Oh, I forgot: amidst all this party hard,
we also have Erzebeth Báthory, the countess. You remember that one
said to be a vampiress? Yeah, she's actually a witch ultrapowerful
with blood, and she's also in the plot and she's so cool. And this is the great premise
of HIJAS DE LILITH. Of course, as you keep reading the book, you'll realize
that the story of Aztarte and Eve and Lilith and everyone else was a little incomplete,
since it happened a loooong time ago, and the truth
may have been warped after centuries. But oh, I won't tell you
the rest of the book because that'd be spoilers, and my intention is for you
to buy and read it. You can find HIJAS DE LILITH by Rafael de la Rosa on
Amazon. The link's here below and, if you want to know more, just
follow Rafael de la Rosa (Spanish) on Twitter -- @dragon_mecanico
I hope you liked today's book.
HIJAS DE LILITH: El Legado de la Sangre, by Rafael de la Rosa. As you can see,
the paperback edition is well-done, very pretty,
so you can get it on kindle and paperback. I hope you liked this video
and see you next time!
Thank you so much for watching me one more week. Bye-bye! :D
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