That a catastrophic storm is Creeper’s origin story, and the origin story of the New Orleans that P. The magic of those old Afrikin gods is part of this city, ma maman used to say, buried in its bones and roots with the slaves that built it, making the ground and air and waterways sacred land.Ĭreeper - who has the goddess Oya residing with her and can, through Oya, sometimes channel storms - is a kind of extension of the power that Oya demonstrated in a “tempête noire” that flooded New Orleans and the surrounding lowlands. The Black God’s Drums is set in New Orleans and of the city Creeper has this to say: This magic is what makes the book fantasy rather than alternate history, and it is also the element which connects the narrative so strongly to place. The part of this book that is so interesting to us is the orisha magic wielded by main characters Jacqueline (or Creeper) and Anne-Marie. The Black God’s Drums was published in 2018 by Tor.
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