The Good Luck Cats
The Battle of Kadesh
Where the whole saga begins, told in panels — the first chapter of the Gravitrek manga.
The first chapter
Kadesh is where the saga opens, so it is where the manga opens — the pharaoh, the goddess, the oath and the gift, drawn as a chapter you can read in one sitting.
In 1274 BC, Ramesses II met the Hittites at Kadesh. It is the oldest moment in this universe and everything else grows out of it: the battle where the cat-goddess Bastet gave the pharaoh eighteen Good Luck Cats, one bound to each of Earth’s Astral Bridges.
The same story that runs through the episodes, the cards and the games — drawn rather than written, and drawn by hand before any of the rest of it existed.
A few chapters a year, each one a piece of the saga in full: the scattering, the broken oath, the hunt that follows. The world is already written; the manga walks through it one chapter at a time.
The chapters after this one go out as e-magazines, from this site and through Amazon, with membership for readers who want every chapter as it lands. The list is below.
More of the pages
Twelve pages from the chapter.
Get the manga
This first chapter is printed, and printed only. It comes as a booklet packed with the Founders' Genesis Box, and there is no digital edition of it — paper is the only way to read Kadesh.
Every chapter after it goes out as an e-magazine, from this site and through Amazon. Join the list and you will hear when the first one is out — one email when something is ready, and nothing else.
Where Kadesh turns up
The season — the gift at Kadesh opens the arc, and the broken oath sets the two hunts running.
The cast — all eighteen Good Luck Cats are handed out in this battle, each bound to a real megalithic site.
Places — the Astral Bridges, from Stonehenge to Chichen Itza, are the network the gift was made to protect.
The games — the Treaty of Kadesh, the first peace treaty in recorded history, is a findable item.