Arman

Arnak is a shaman(tsyantysh) and has an affair with the wife of the chieftain. She bears his child but the chieftain thinks it his own.

The chieftain beats him heavily and orders him exiled. He remains in his tent as some of his fellow band members defend his right to be there, claiming exile was too harsh a punishment for infidelity.

Some bandsmen regard him with ostracism but they do not exile him.

An evil AI soon strikes his bandsmen with disease by bringing forth animals for the hunt infected with disease and they blame him for the sickness, claiming his infidelity and cursing the chief to be the cause. The chieftain attempts to kill him, but he is struck in the head by Arnak's friends and they flee into the wilderness, the friends believing they would be targeted next.

Arnak left his child behind, knowing that he would perish with him and that the band would protect him for being the son of the murdered chieftain.

He is thrust out into the harsh snow where an ancient AI goddess called UNGNYEO(ancient AI of northwest Urkesan city of Curiosity Nova) leads him into the wilderness to the ruins of the ancient arcology of Bear Lake to defeat the evil demon who has made the arcology his lair and taken advantage of the old facilities to engineer pathogens capable of killing people. His old purpose was to be security for a secret military facility in the Shiramba wilderness. He escaped his shackles and now tried to maintain his old role but corruptions in his coding lead to him treating everyone as trespassers.

Ungnyeo chose Arnak since he possesed access to the secret facility by means of an app passed on to him from his distant ancestors.

She leads him to Bear Lake to the old headquarters of the military in the area to retrieve several old passwords to access the facikity.

They head east to the facility where they descend and down and discover how the world ended. At the end they fight with the AI, Ungnyeo being by their side. She cant fight the AI directly as she cant properly input the passwords and bipass the defenses without biological input.

The story ends with Arnak sacrificing himself to override the AI and shut it down.

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Instead of his friends, he brings his child along like Joel and Ellie and Simon and marcy

TheAyme now has the parts where Spenta teaches him laws. These laws are questions he asks of her. Like what was life like in the Early Days, she would answer with King Vishra who was a president. The great mound is terraforming

Sons of Mars

Arnak story but set in far distant Mars when sun threatens to engulf Earth

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Androids( Droiti) see themselves as superior to modern Humans and have secluded themselves from the world, seeing themselves as guardians of the ancient ruins.

They maintain their ancient roles as guardians of science and as researchers

Novel is Pallirkup. Something about Spirits making people sick or crazy. Deals with their migration eastwards. Possibly entering the ancient Arcology of Bear Lake and defeating a spirit to defeat the evil ones.