In the vast and fertile land between the Tigris and Euphrates, gods once ruled the winds, the rivers, and the very stars that watched over ancient cities. Before the rise of a king who would unite the scattered peoples, each city breathed life into its own protector, its own force of nature. But with the hammer of law and the will of a mighty conqueror, the gods themselves would bow to the will of one-ushering in a new order, a reshaping of the heavens,...