The Last Council. The Gods Who Fade, #0

Before there was one God, there were seventy. Before the first verse of Genesis, five humanities were shaped, tested, and then erased - each one a more docile version of the last, each one sacrificed in the name of the next. Helel knows this: he sat on the council when the decision was made. He will soon be called the Morning Star, then the Adversary, then a name he never chose. For now, he is nothing more than the best-placed witness to the greatest reform ever undertaken by El - the dissolution of an entire pantheon, the erasure of seventy guardian gods and the goddess who was their mother, so that only one name, one chosen people, one story might remain.
Faced with this methodical purge, Semyaza and his Nephilim choose total war. Helel chooses a more fragile wager: to remain a witness, to document what he has seen, to pass on to the Children of the Breath the memory that the new order is about to seal away forever. But what is testimony worth against a god who is determined, sincere, and capable of turning every objection into sacred mystery?On every page of The Last Council, the shadow of an ancient polytheism - councils, guardian gods, lots divided among peoples, the oral memory of buried cycles - coexists with the birth of a still-unstable monotheism, one that must invent, through its own contradictions, omniscience, theodicy, election, and incarnate love.
The archives still speak of Fravashis, of administrative floods and divine lots; soon, nothing will remain of them but a whisper buried within a single book. Structured as a mythological reconstruction in four acts - from the fracture of the council to the founding Apocalypse - this novel offers a complete journey through the cycle: from the five vanished humanities to the total, and never disputed, victory of El.
It is preceded by an introduction on the mechanics of founding narratives, and followed by an afterword on the price - invisible but real - that every monotheism has paid to come into being.