The world of The Last Seal
Sorcery and Gunpowder, Words of Power and Demons

The World in The Last Seal is our world: London as it was in September 1666 but with a difference.

The race of demons exist and are almost indestructible and very ancient creatures who existed on our earth centuries before mankind. Our ancestors fought a war in prehistoric times - a war fought with weapons and with sorcery - and in time banished the demons to the void outside our world.

Over the centuries some men tried to bring the demons back and to free them from their captivity - these became the Liberati. Others strives to protect our world from the demons and these were the Praesidium. Their battle raged through the centuries.

In the 14th Century Blake - a Liberati - managed to free the demon Dantalion. His triumph was short lived as Cornelius - a Praesidium - bound the demon in a tablet and buried the tablet under the city of London. Now, three hundred years later, the Liberati are poised to release Dantalion and a new battle to save the city and the world will ensue.

Words of Power


In The Last Seal Gabriel, Artemas and Ben use Words of Power as weapons with which to fight, a means of defence and a method of summoning a demon.  These were once words that the demons spoke in their infernal language and which held power. These same words found their way into our many languages, buried away in a thousand dialects, but both the Liberati and the Praesidium have discovered and combined the words and now they can use these words in their conflict. Here are some of these words, which I used in this book. I have included here the words used and shown the languages they come from as well as a pronunciation guide.


Flash bang: “Kipofu-Lumen-Glimt”
Blind (Swahili Kipofu); Light (Latin Lumen) ; Flash (Norweigian Glimt)


Bolt of Lightning: “Calamus Aστραπή  Cтрелять”
Arrow (Latin calamus); Lightning (Greek astrapi); Shoot (Russian strelyat)


Rite of freeing Dantalion: “Eleuthero  Libertas Dantalion”
Separate (Eleuthero Greek) Freedom (Liberats Latin) Dantalion (name of the demon)


Cone of Ice: “κώνος , jää , décharge!” 
Cone (Greek Konus ) Ice (Finish Yar); discharge (French daysharge)


Dismissing Illusion: “Ostendu, Realität, núhwílum!”
Reveal (Latin ostendu) ; Reality (German realitate) ; Now (Old English newveelum)


Mystical Shield:“Contego,Aeris, Minä!”
Shield (Latin contego), Air (Latin airis), Myself (Finish mineh)


Open doorway to Abyss “Ingang, Vácuo  Nepokriven”
Entance (German ingank); Vacuum (Portuguese vaqwo) Open (Serbian nepocriven)