To Be Immortals is one man's tale of loss, loneliness and redemption. Set in the late 1800's in the small town of Salem Massachusetts, Joseph Drake, the son of a wealthy Plantation owner, is ridiculed and outcast for his strange ways and beliefs. An alchemist like his grandfather, Joseph is highly intellectual and open-minded.When taunted and persecuted for a crime he did not commit, peaceful Josephretaliates by using his gifts and his grandfather's incomplete journals to createa homunculi. Joseph is shocked when the artificial being is complete, as it isn't at all what he expected. He names his new companion Angela and teaches her that good can come evenfrom the worst situations. Soon, however, there are rumors that Joseph is a devil-worshipper and his home is destroyed sending him and his companion on the run. He later finds that the culprit is trying to retrieve valuable information about the Philosopher's Stone, which his grandfather had supposedly found. After a battle in a basement full of caged zombies, Joseph and his companion find victory and realize a bond that they already possessed.
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