The Darkness That Comes Before

R. Scott Bakker

Book 1 of The Prince of Nothing

Language: English

Publisher: Penguin

Published: Apr 15, 2003

Description:

It's a world scarred by an acopalyptic past, evoking a time both two thousand years past and two thousand years into the future, as untold thousands gather for a crusade. Travelling among them, two men and two women are ensnared by a mysterious traveler, Anasurimbor Kellhus—part warrior, part philosopher, part sorcerous, charismatic presence—from lands long thought dead. 

The Darkness that Comes Before is a history of this great holy war, and like all histories, the survivors write its conclusion.