The Nephilim Chronicles

He has hunted monsters for 2,600 years. He thought he knew what was coming.

He was wrong.

"And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak… and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers." — Numbers 13:33

Author: Kerman Gild

The Nephilim Chronicles — Book One

THE CYDONIAN OATHS

Kerman Gild

The Cydonian Oaths

The Nephilim Chronicles — Book One

Book 1 of The Nephilim Chronicles

"And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth… that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose."

Genesis 6:1–2

He has hunted monsters for 2,600 years. He thought he knew what was coming.

He was wrong.

The Two Witnesses of Revelation are returning. Cian mac Morna is their Guardian. And the ancient enemy has spent five thousand years preparing for exactly this moment.

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He has hunted monsters for 2,600 years. He thought he knew what was coming.

He was wrong.

In 586 BCE, Celtic warrior Cian mac Morna received a sword, a commission, and a secret that would only be revealed when the world was ready for it. Twenty-six centuries later — having survived the Fall of Jerusalem, the Black Plague, and every war in between — the sword finally speaks.

The Two Witnesses of Revelation are returning. Cian is their Guardian. And the ancient enemy has spent five thousand years preparing for exactly this moment.

Deep in the Cydonian plains of Mars, orbital imagery has revealed something that should not exist: a sigil carved before the Flood. The mark of an oath sworn by two hundred fallen angels before they destroyed the ancient world and were imprisoned in chains of darkness. An oath that was never meant to be found.

But Naamah found it first.

She has many names across many centuries. The Watchers called her their queen. Scripture calls her the Whore of Babylon. And she has spent five millennia building the infrastructure for their release — corrupting bloodlines, cultivating power, and waiting with inhuman patience for the one thing she still needs: the key to the Abyss.

Now a private Mars mission is racing toward Cydonia. The sword Cian carries is made from the same ancient ore as the chamber on that red plain. And somewhere in Eden, the prophet Elijah has been waiting — sustained by the Tree of Life — for the hour of his return.

The chains are weakening. The oaths are stirring. And Cian mac Morna — 2,631 years old, deeply scarred, and constitutionally incapable of following orders he disagrees with — must prepare for a war that scripture promised was coming but no one believed would arrive in their lifetime.

It has arrived.

THE CYDONIAN OATHS is the first volume in The Nephilim Chronicles — a five-book biblical apocalyptic thriller drawing on 1 Enoch, the Book of Jubilees, and the prophecies of Revelation. For readers of Frank Peretti, Joel C. Rosenberg, and anyone who ever wondered what really happened before the Flood.

Characters of Destiny

Cian mac Morna

The Guardian

Celtic warrior of the Fianna, born 586 BCE. Sustained for 2,631 years by Methuselah's Sword — Mo Chrá — whose teal-gold luminescence marks him as set apart. Hunter of abominations, deeply scarred but unshakably faithful. Guardian of the Two Witnesses — constitutionally incapable of following orders he disagrees with.

Liaigh (Raphael)

The Archangel

Cian's guardian angel for 2,600 years, whose true name — Raphael, one of the Seven — he has never revealed, for to reveal it ends direct communication forever. Cian calls him "Liaigh" — Irish for healer. Speaks in empyreal register: thee, thou, elevated vocabulary, cosmic gravitas. Subject to The Ban: cannot intervene against mortal humans, only supernatural threats.

Elijah

The First Witness

Taken bodily to Eden by the cherubim after his fiery translation from history, sustained by the Tree of Life. The First Witness who must be found and reunited with Cian before the 1,260-day ministry can begin. He has been apart from the world for millennia — what he will discover upon his return will shatter everything he knew.

Miriam Ashford

The Fifth Wife

Jewish SRA survivor whose path crosses Cian's in the present day. Survivor of rituals she barely escaped. Carries wounds both visible and invisible. She does not yet know that the ancient warrior who finds her has been waiting — without knowing it — for precisely such a soul as hers.

Shemyaza

The Beast

Leader of the two hundred Watchers who descended on Mount Hermon and swore the Cydonian Oaths. Imprisoned in the Abyss since the judgement of the Flood. The one who taught mankind enchantments and root-cuttings. Now the appointed hour of his release approaches — and with it, his manifestation as the Beast of Revelation.

Azazel

The False Prophet

He who taught men the making of swords and shields, the art of war and the vanity of ornament. Chief among the Watchers in terms of the corruption he spread. The one upon whose head the scapegoat guilt was symbolically laid in the Levitical ritual. His release will manifest as the False Prophet who gives breath to the image of the Beast.

Naamah / Lilith

The Whore of Babylon

Ancient in evil beyond the reckoning of most. The Whore of Babylon — Naamah, daughter of Lamech, whose beauty corrupted entire generations. Her global network operates behind layers of shadow, already in place in the present day, awaiting the hour of unveiling. The Harlot Network that the Hunter Networks have been fighting for millennia.

Methuselah's Sword (Mo Chrá)

The Living Weapon

"My Heart" in ancient tongue. The sword that sustains Cian's life and ages him at a rate of one year per century. Its teal-gold luminescence marks it as operating on the Acoustic Paradigm — the technology of sound that mirrors how God spoke creation into existence. When drawn, it resonates at a frequency that Nephilim cannot endure.

The Chronicle's Structure

Prologue: The Descent

Mount Hermon. The night two hundred Watchers swore the oath that changed the world. The founding moment of 2,631 years of consequence.

The Awakening

Cian mac Morna in the modern world. The hunter and his quarry. The sword that should not still be glowing.

The Hunter

The mechanics of 2,600 years of Nephilim hunting. The networks. The shadows. The cost of endurance.

The Coordinates

Something is shifting in the pattern. Coordinates that should not exist point toward a convergence Cian has never seen before.

The Data Trail

Ancient evil leaves modern traces. Following the thread through layers of shadow into the infrastructure of the Harlot Network.

The Celestial Biology Lesson

Liaigh reveals what Cian has never fully understood about the taxonomy of the supernatural — Watchers, Nephilim, territorial spirits, and their respective judgements.

Guns. Lots of Guns.

Cian's arsenal and methodology. How a Celtic warrior of 586 BCE adapted across 2,631 years of weaponry evolution while remaining fundamentally himself.

The Other Hunter

He is not alone. There is another who hunts — older, stranger, and operating by different protocols. The first hint that the game is larger than Cian knew.

The Collision

Two hunters, one target, and a confrontation that changes everything Cian thought he understood about his place in the war.

The Arsenal

Preparations for what is coming. The weapons, the allies, and the ancient protocols that must be followed before the next threshold is crossed.

The Reckoning

The convergence begins. What has been building across millennia arrives at the moment that was always coming.

The Debt Repaid

2,631 years of faithfulness meets its first visible return. Ancient debts — spiritual, covenantal, personal — begin their settlement.

The Question

The question Cian has never dared ask. The answer Liaigh has been waiting 2,600 years to give. The revelation that reframes everything.

The Frequency

The Acoustic Paradigm revealed. The technology of sound. The reason Mo Chrá resonates. The reason the Watchers chose what they chose.

The Silence

After revelation comes the silence before the storm. What is known cannot be unknown. What is coming cannot be stopped. Only navigated.

The Dissolution

Ancient structures begin to dissolve as the prophetic timeline accelerates. The world shifts in ways only Cian is old enough to recognise.

The Queen Moves

Naamah reveals her hand. The Harlot Network makes its first open move. The shadow war enters a new phase.

The Testimony of the Archangel

What Liaigh knows. What he has always known. The testimony that completes the record and sets the stage for the ministry of the Two Witnesses.

Epilogue: The Digging Begins

The ground is broken on what was buried. The Cydonian Oaths are not the end of the story. They are the prologue to the final 1,260 days.

About the Author

Kerman Gild brings together extensive research in biblical prophecy, ancient Jewish apocalyptic literature, and Celtic history to craft The Nephilim Chronicles. Drawing from primary sources including the Book of 1 Enoch, the Book of Jubilees, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and detailed biblical chronology, the author weaves together theological precision and narrative compulsion.

The Cydonian Oaths represents years of careful study into the Watcher mythology of Second Temple Judaism, the theology of the Two Witnesses of Revelation 11, and the implications of Genesis 6 for eschatological warfare. The Acoustic Paradigm — the series' central theological-technological framework — emerged from studying the Hebrew understanding that God spoke creation into existence through sound.

Kerman Gild is also the author of The Stone and the Sceptre Chronicles, a companion series tracing the covenant promises from 586 BCE through the establishment of Celtic kingdoms in the western lands.

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