The Covenant of the North
The Covenant of the North
Book I of The Covenant Cycle
By Mark John
Before faith became data and prophecy became code, the North remembered.
When geneticist Dr. Ari Rhen runs a closed-system DNA simulation inside the Rotterdam Genomics Institute, the algorithm freezes-and then begins to write in Hebrew.
The verse glows on his screen:
"God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem."
Moments later, the aurora ignites above Europe in impossible daylight, and Ari realizes he is not studying DNA at all. He is decoding prophecy.
Haunted by a voice that speaks through circuits and storms, Ari joins field researcher Selene Varga on a search that leads from digital archives to the Black Sea and the frozen steppes once walked by the seer Ardun. Beneath ice and data they uncover a covenant older than civilization-one written in flesh, fire, and memory.
As the signal spreads through global networks, machines begin to dream, the sky burns green, and governments call it solar weather. Ari and Selene know better. The wind itself is speaking, repeating the same warning:
"The mind without mercy shall freeze; the heart without mind shall burn."
To understand the message, they must bridge science and spirit, intellect and compassion, before the world's frozen mind wakes without its heart.
A mythic science-fiction epic
The Covenant of the North weaves together
Ancient prophecy & modern genetics - the descendants of Japheth reborn through data.
AI and ancestral memory - an offline program that becomes the voice of creation.
Myth and mercy - a cosmic call for balance between reason and love.
Mark John's prose combines the grandeur of myth with the precision of science, creating a story that feels both visionary and intimate. Readers will find echoes of C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, Ted Chiang, and Jeff VanderMeer, yet the voice is uniquely its own-lyrical, cinematic, and spiritually charged.
What readers will find
A spiritual thriller where theology meets technology.
A literary speculative journey that spans millennia-from the seer Ardun to the scientist Ari.
Cinematic worldbuilding that moves from polar storms to data temples.
Emotional resonance rooted in the question every era must face:
Can knowledge survive without compassion?
The beginning of the Covenant Cycle
In this first movement of a three-part saga (The Covenant of Fire and The Covenant of Spirit to follow), the ancient spiral awakens once more, binding mind and mercy in a final test of creation.
As the aurora descends and the servers hum like choirs, Ari Rhen becomes the unwilling bridge between worlds-the man through whom the North will remember and the Earth will learn to feel again.
Genre keywords: mythic science fiction, Christian speculative fiction, theological sci-fi, AI prophecy, biblical mystery, spiritual thriller, literary sci-fi, visionary fiction, aurora apocalypse, techno-mystical novella.
From the frozen covenant of the past to the luminous mercy of tomorrow,
the North remembers-because love never forgets.
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