Aaru: Dante's Path

"Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new Heaven' first found the power thereto in his own Hell."-Friedrich NietzscheThe virtual paradise of Aaru is destroyed. The lords and ladies are overthrown. Most of the Vedas are captured, and Magic Man's dark creation, Hel rules with an iron fist, exacting her horrible revenge.Arch Veda Rose is afraid it's all her fault. While the defeated lords and ladies sequester themselves in the impregnable tree-fortress of Yggdrasil, Rose decides it is up to her to make things right. Together she, and her bitter rival Matteus decide to work together to secretly infiltrate Hel's Kingdom of Dis and rescue their tormented friends. At the same time, Koren has struggles of her own, mourning the untimely death of her father and separation from her sister Rose even as the corrupt megachurch pastor, Benjamin Belial, inserts himself deeper and deeper into her life, affairs, and family, and public opinion turns increasingly against Elysian Industries. Though worlds apart, both sisters must traverse a proverbial Dante's Path with no guarantee of success or survival.