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Now Playing: Book One, “Lovers and Beloveds”: Eighteen-year-old Prince Temmin has led a childhood as close to normal as possible, far from the capital. When he comes of age and joins his father King Harsin, he’s completely unprepared for the politics, assassins and sexual intrigues at court. Temmin is even more unprepared when he discovers there is magic . . .
An Intimate History of the Greater Kingdom has everything that every good fantasy story needs: magic, prophecies, mysterious—apparently immortal – mentors and curses just to mention a few. But unlike most fantasy stories, there is no apparent Quest – it is simply the history of the Kingdom. Not the dull sort of history in text books that are nothing [more . . .]
. . . that all but one of these reviews (all before September 2010) reflect a version of the serial that is no longer available. Please come check out the new version. It’s better. Promise.