The Life of Mocata

The Life of Mocata is the name of a fantasy book series by Frank Jenkins, published from 1994 to 1998 by Harper Collins. The series, told in four volumes (with a fifth forthcoming), tells the story of Edward Tamaron, a sorcerer who becomes the apprentice of the universe-hopping Incomputare known as Cyrus Sincodemius. Tamaron slowly descends into madness and egomania, and begins to plot to conquer the entire Multiverse, eventually realizing his role as the Multiverse's First Enemy. He sustains his lifespan by jumping into a variety of hosts, including James Marvel, Tsutomu Warren, Charles Titan, Karl Gerber, Brocelyn Hogarth Brant, Hippolyte Jason, and finally (for now) Brooder Nebel.

For a summary of the basic events of the individual volumes, please read the individual pages concerned with each of Tamaron's successive hosts.

The story of The Life of Mocata is also told in the Author's Notes, which describe the Reunion Project and the possible canonicity of Yaubus Redford's Kuru; or, the Zombies.

The title of the series is derived from a name briefly taken from Sincodemius by Tamaron in Volume I; it is also the name of the sorcerer from Dennis Wheatley's The Devil Rides Out (1934), which, according to the Author's Notes, was a heavy influence on the series.