the mysterious Lord Krishna from the Bhagavad Gita, the equivalent of the Indian Bible. However, please do not get the idea this book is about religion. Pike's novel is totally free of dogma. He never says Krishna is God, and his heroine is never sure who Krishna truly is. Also, he is careful not to offend anyone's faith. But there is a heart breaking passage where two of the main characters debate the existence of God. They soon come to the conclusion that "God" is impossible to define or know, but whatever Krishna was, he was too powerful, and too beautiful, to disobey.

Hey hey look I'm completely fucking with Indian monotheism BUT DON'T GET MAD MONOTHEISTS I'm totally not going to push a non-Abrahamic worldview in what is blatantly a fantasy novel. You can feel safe now.