Tahsin is a Janissary who just wants to keep his head down.
He gets sent to a backwater Serbian town to collect taxes. Simple mission. In and out.
Except the local despot won’t hand over the ledgers until Tahsin handles two problems: a “wolf” killing villagers, and missing children.
The wolf isn’t a wolf. The tavern owner tells him her brother was found in the woods, mauled….but the bite marks were too small. Dozens of them. “They looked like the bites of a child.”
Now Tahsin’s stuck between a sadistic cavalry officer itching for a fight, a masked giant who speaks in grunts, and the creeping suspicion that someone sent him here knowing he wouldn’t come back.
Shinichirō Watanabe (director of Cowboy Bebop) was once asked which of his characters he’d want to hang out with.
His answer: “I’d rather not spend any time with any of them. Everyone is so tiring.”
That’s the standard for Brotherhood of the Wolf. Real people in impossible situations and no easy answers.
Brotherhood of the Wolf: Blood Tax. Issues #1 & 2 + False Light, a 30,000-word novella.
66 pages of full-color storytelling. Artist Aurelio Mazzara (Disney, DreamWorks, Marvel). Grounded in 15th-century Ottoman folklore. Praised by Kirkus for “visceral emotion” and “cinematic realism.”
Available now: https://talesofkhayr.com/blood-tax/
-Wes