The Secrets of the Lineages in the Continuus Nexus
In this article, we will discuss the importance of lineages in the context of the Continuus Nexus, something that Tolmarher does not leave to chance and which extends over thousands of years across different intertwining and intricate space-time lines.
We can start with the lineage of Kadosh, which according to the current books (we are in the fourth installment of the fifth series Chaos and Darkness at the time of making this video), has merged with his worst enemy, the archon Abaddon, justified by his desire for revenge against Baalfegor for murdering the love of his life, Charlize.
But where does Kadosh come from? This character, the Red Messiah, first appears as a child in the second series of the same name. Noah the Hunter rescues him from a lake where his capsule has crashed, finding a child with astounding powers who will change the fate of Aqueron forever.
This child turns out to be a clone, combining archon genes with those of the last human emperor of his timeline, Abramantes, the founder of the corsair caste that still wages war among the stars.
These corsairs discover Kadosh thanks to Laertes, later activating the colossal starship Aurantia, which will bring an end to the war.
Thus, Kadosh is originally part archon, inheriting their powers, and partly a descendant of Abramantes. This saga of emperors traces back thousands of years to the planet Crosaurius, the first world to awaken after the darkness that followed the destruction of Earth, initiating the age of rediscovery. But where did the royal dynasty of Crosaurius come from? At the end of Chronicles of Aqueron, when Jonah Fox and Freya, among others, perform a quantum leap to escape the explosion of Gehenna, they arrive in Crosaurius, centuries before Earth’s destruction in that timeline, thus beginning their own lineage. Therefore, Kadosh is a descendant of Jonah Fox!
A similar story unfolds with Sael, the precursor of the first part of the Black Sun novels. Discovered in stasis inside a drifting Mordus cruiser for thousands of years near an Exo Star Tomb, she was not manifesting to the people of Exodus for the first time. In fact, she was also Isabella Kheb, the first abducted of this lineage and a human-Exo hybrid. Isabella Kheb is the mother—without a known father—of Jonah and Jorah Kheb, the founders of the Estirpe lineage and the Kheb sect, bitter enemies in the Exodus.
In this second avatar, Sael has a relationship with a young Kheb named Actarus, later giving birth to a son handed over to his father deep within a Star Tomb, named Jeor.
Jeor is none other than Jeor Arryn, who takes his surname from the commander who rescued him thousands of years earlier through a quantum leap, thus initiating his paradox and cycle. But that’s not all—thanks to The Purity, we know that there were survivors of the apocalyptic Axia War in the Terra solar system. However, Jeor and his people, after leaping through the stellar anomaly that led them to Exodus, were unaware of this… Left behind were his two children: Eva and Atreo Arryn.
Atreo has a son with Kenya, but later, he finds the Exoship, which inadvertently abducts him and propels him into the future, leaving everything behind. His descendants, like those of his sisters, are responsible for the presence of Exo genes in the Milky Way and in The Purity, such as the Heretic Inquisitor Samael, who carries the Black Sun medallion. Thus, Samael is indirectly a descendant of Sael.
Atreo arrives in Antea Solaris, suffering from amnesia—a psychological safeguard to prevent the shock of non-time and the leap, as happens to all those who experience the Quantum Leap on the Exoship.
In the timeline of The Purity, Atreo marries Tirsa, the daughter of Admiral Manasés, a house that split from the ducal house Sforza, whom they served. Their daughter, Majá, will be the first to bear the surname Arryn-Manasés.
At the beginning of The Purity, two noble houses are locked in an ancestral rivalry—the Médici and the Sforza. Both houses are mentioned as offshoots or bastards of the royal Kish house. The Kish are the longest-reigning emperors in the The Purity and Chaos and Darkness timelines. They were the ones who, with the help of the Kurgan, allowed a shipment of Elixir to be stolen, which later led to the founding of the Brotherhood of Inquisitors and later, The Sisters of the Path.
Throughout The Purity, the descendants and heirs of both houses become romantically involved—Sofía Médici and Dave Sforza. From their union will be born the new Sforza-Médici nation, and a son who will carry a new surname merging both houses, named Muzio, after his grandfather, who used an Exo metal body to survive before disappearing, thanks to the help of Wotan Daneron, another direct connection to Legends of the Black Sun.
But this is not the end. There are many more examples within the books; one of the most bizarre is that of Revar, who in Legends of the Black Sun is mentioned as the apocryphal legend of the Last Estirpe. As an Estirpe, Revar is a descendant of Isabella Kheb—the first avatar of Sael—and thus a distant relative of many protagonists within the Continuus Nexus.
Revar, through his pact with the Khabal and a version of the Tablets of Me, will transition to Eternum, transforming into a being of pure infernal energy, leading the Khabal hordes in this other timeline in search of the Infernal Conjunction.
There are many more examples, but I won’t mention them all for now. Suffice it to say that this journey is far from over, and as Chaos and Darkness moves toward the Infernal Conjunction, the family lines of the Continuus Nexus have two converging paths—one toward the Light and the other toward Darkness, mirroring the veiled evolution of the Exo and their transcendence of the Khabal. The family crossings toward that conjunction have not ended and will continue in the upcoming installments. But where does all of this lead? Only destiny, the Infernal Conjunction, and Tolmarher know the answer.
