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Science & Sihr
Technology exists beside mystical energies, strange abilities and forces that refuse to fit neatly into scientific explanation.
Speculative Fiction · Science Fantasy
Tales from
New Arabiyya
Strange worlds. Ancient powers. Futures shaped by Sihr.
Enter a collection of richly imagined stories where Arabian-inspired myth, science fiction, mysticism and far-future civilizations collide.
A Collection by Shan Iyer
Beyond the familiar boundaries of fantasy and science fiction.
Tales from New Arabiyya moves through distant worlds, shifting histories and extraordinary civilizations. Its stories blend futuristic technology with the language and atmosphere of myth, mysticism and the supernatural.
Strange cities, hidden orders, ancient forces, assassins, daemons and beings touched by Sihr occupy a universe where the boundaries between science and magic have long ceased to be clear.
Each tale offers another glimpse into the wider mythology of New Arabiyya.
The World of New Arabiyya
A universe of Sihr, empires and impossible worlds.
New Arabiyya brings together the ancient and the futuristic, constructing a speculative world shaped by unfamiliar cultures, supernatural forces and interplanetary conflict.
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Mythic Futures
Arabian and Middle Eastern influences are reimagined across distant planets, altered civilizations and far-future societies.
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Dangerous Powers
Assassins, Chaos Lords, daemons and hidden hierarchies move through worlds where survival may depend upon powers few fully understand.
From Tales from New Arabiyya
An Excerpt
Under the seclusion of darkness, below an unseen hollowed building, the figure of Data Sarkhoor was about to regale tales to the shiniest of tiniest eyes.
Sarkhoor was a lanky, tall Indian adult. Here he delivered assorted tales with all the soulful Sihr refuse. Soul of the Hashasheen order, regaling those who were cast out. The refuse of wastes through ritual retelling of these stories to build character. Tales from many pasts, many futures to younglings’ assassins hopefully—intoned to the present to the waiting gallery of eyes.
His guiding aim is to infuse their very hearts and minds with faith, prayer, and guidance to seek union with the light of Allah. Data Sarkhoor, one of the greatest natural Sihr assassins ever to grace the innards of The Hashasheen outpost, enjoyed imparting wisdom and hidden wealth of the impossible fates to the future agents of the Creator and Empire.
Agog with fascination, they gazed at his gentle golden light as it continued to seethe, unmanifested, latent, and lurking within his skin, flowing through the veins and through his blood.
“To become an assassin is a vocation that was indubitably strange and blessed. However, does one, wrathful, endowed with intangible magics of Sihr, a soul, behave unto the world? What are the marks that a Hashasheen wielding Sihr creates?” he queried.
The children were quietly ushered into the small grotto-like chamber, perhaps thirty dhira high and fifty-five dhira in diameter. Strangely, this ceiling was a low nine dhira. The children were here to ensure their safety, as above-ground battles were commencing.
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