Basque Stories

Lorea is a country of changing skies. A desert consumes the land around it, spreading. Winds screech and howl across the mountain range. Magic surges throughout Lorea, but the sorcerers have been gone for so long that there is no one to recognize the signs of an impending disaster. This particular story is about a thief after a priceless book, and a stone shattered into three pieces.

Oihane Is a struggling artist who works as a waitress and bartender at her godfather's Basque restaurant in Bilbao's touristic center. She understands doing what's necessary to get ahead and escape her past, but some things she just can't escape. And other things she runs right into without thinking.

A travel writer. A weekend in Madrid. A deranged drunk Londoner expat. A feisty, lunatic Basque girlfriend. Booze - lots of it. Memory loss and a missing mobile phone. Your average weekend getaway.

In a cloistered 16th-century theological symposium, Father Hernando Ruiz delivers a fiery monologue declaring that logic and analytical reasoning are not enemies of faith but its highest expression. Proposing a new doctrine-Analytical Theology-he demands that rational thought be enshrined as sacred duty, framing irrationality as heresy. In this moment, the seeds of a cold, intellectual dominion are sown.

Looking for a name for your character? Well, you found the right book! This book will include not only both boy and girl names but last names too! Some names are common and others not so common. Suggestions are always welcome. I hope I could be of some help! Happy searching! -babette

"Tales of Survival and Revenge" is the theme of BEGINNINGS I. GENESIS and RESURRECTION is the story of violence, heartbreak and the genesis of a bitter cycle of murder and revenge around the Basque country in Spain. BEGINNINGS : Where A Life Begins, is an epic action-packed novel set around the escape of a talented but troubled young mother and her strangely perceptive daughter from the violence of fascist Spain at the end of its bloody civil war and their struggle to make a new life in southwest France. The next two decades bring war, Nazi occupation, political unrest, the birth of the Basque terrorist movement and the appearance of an undercover Franco military officer seeking revenge for millennia-old grievance. Exploring a vast historical sweep of thousands of years, it is filled to the brim with powerful characters, violence, romance, true historical detail, multi-layered themes of love, hate, murder, revenge and political intrigue as well as a dose of science, myth and mystery. In I. GENESIS and RESURRECTION, the story begins with Maria - alone, heavily pregnant and with her baby son in her arms - desperately fleeing the persecution inflicted on her people by the Fascist dictator Franco at the end of the Spanish civil war. On her escape into France, her infant son is the victim of a callous border guard but she and her unborn daughter are saved by an unknown assassin; both actions echoing past and future violence and vengeance. The trauma sends the unborn child's mind deep into the past where a horrible crime against her ancestors in prehistoric times hints at the genesis of otherwise inexplicable hatred and violence that have often re-surfaced down through the centuries. Back in Bayonne, Maria buries her infant son in a world of self-recriminations. It is only through communion with her unborn child and a new friend that she begins to face life again, but unaware of just how dangerous the birth of her new child may turn out to be.

The ancient pagan beliefs in Basqueland, mainly based on spirituality and sheerness within nature. The wisdom was bequeathed to us by our forefathers, generation after generation until today; and here we all stand under Goddess Mari, the true personification of Amaluŕ (Mother Earth) itself.

A father and his three sons go on a hike in a particularly dangerous valley in the Pyrenees. The middle-child gradually asks more and more questions about their village's history, the valley's name and why the place is said to be cursed. When he realizes that people have been disappearing in strange circumstances in this valley, he wonders if they'll safely make it home that night... ***** "Harana" is the Gascon and Basque word for "valley".

In 1569, Inquisitor Francisco de Albornoz reflects on the fall of Seville's heretics, finding himself unsettled by the clarity of their arguments. He questions the plausibility of sacred teachings, particularly the rebellion of angels against omnipotence, and proposes a shift toward a faith rooted in reason rather than myth. Francisco's letter marks the beginning of an ideological transformation within the Inquisition, as doubt gives way to a pursuit of unshakable truth.

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How he proposed. How he fell in love. How they met.

A criminal is on the loose in Basque Dominion-controlled territory. His actions demand a response, and one will come-swift, precise, and absolute. But justice is never just about punishment. In a world where power is perception, every crisis is an opportunity, and every player serves a purpose-whether they know it or not.

...There was a physical anime world that you could enter into? You could push through the barrier and be transformed into an anime character. Time there is much like time in Narnia, which grants the very happy fan years of play time in their favorite anime or manga. The main character of this story discovers exactly that, and is transported into the world of Hetalia. (DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN ANY ANIME OR OTHER SHOWS REFERENCED IN THIS STORY. THE ONLY THINGS I OWN ARE THE STORY LINE, HOW THEY GET TO THE ANIME WORLD, AND CARMEN. KADI, ALICE, AND ELSBETH WERE CREATED BY MY FRIENDS, THOUGH I DO HAVE PERMISSION TO USE THEM IN MY STORY.)

Eurasian Project CHIMERA, as a means to counter Basque Dominion's superiority.

Brujo: A Witch's Tale is a dark fantasy story that tells the grim tale of two Basque sisters, young Ainhoa and her younger sister, Eilish, who once lived separately from each other due to Eilish's mysterious "blood illness" but conjoin together after their parents, Geliga and Marcrusio de Raido, got arrested for witchcraft by the Spanish Inquisition, which forced the sisters to trust each other and escape the grasps of the Master Inquisitor, Faltpresto Vulgrima, who is dreadfully obsessed in capturing Eilish. With Ainhoa relying on her wits and instincts and Eilish dealing with her illness, the girls attempt the impossible as they survive against the Inquisition and a supernatural force of vampire birds that plague Northern Spain in one of the most darkest and unforgiving times in history.