Time and Tide

<p>A lost and lonely orphaned youth grows up street wise and tough in the poorest districts of a 19th century Scandinavian city before joining the early foreign Legion. </p><p>But soon after he deserts the Legion to become a mercenary for an Islamic Warlord in Mesopotamia where he near-fatally contracts TB. </p><p>When his small company are ambushed and butchered by a Bandit Army he flees into the mountain wilderness. Here by absolute chance he discovers and consumes the world's rarest plant first stumbled on by an ancient warrior king of Uruk - the flower of born again- so sought after by vast people through history. </p><p>The plant's miraculous properties heal his illness and his life enters a seemingly alternate dimension as he embarks on a fantastical journey: this takes him through several coming centuries in his search for love purpose and meaning in a fast changing world: he finds this world to be one of myriad amazing opportunities as well as one filled with lethal and terrible unknowns and risks beyond count.</p>