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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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Welcome to Monsilys, capital of an empire racked by intrigue, facing invasion from abroad and treason from within. A young Empress recalls her two uncles to the capital, hoping their presence will help her keep her throne . . . Cassius, a seasoned military commander with an impulsive temper and a decided preference for the company of men, and Valentin: politician, . . .
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The Keeper’s Promise is the story of a world on the brink of war, and the descendants of the ancient Keepers who must be gathered to defend the land once more from the incursion of the Iziiran general, Mordth. Dhel is a young Rhyjain Rider whose life is turned upside down when he is tasked to deliver an ill-fated . . .
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Torn World offers a unique shared world platform with flavors of science fiction, high fantasy, slipstream, steampunk and alternate realities. Two widely disparate cultures are poised to meet – a close-knit, peaceful, unicorn-herding people, and a sprawling, expansionist, pre-industrial Empire that uses time technology in a near-magic fashion. Created by Ellen Million, multiple authors and artists have used the . . .
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Sythyry is a fairly young immortal, a maker of enchanted clothing and other modern conveniences in the city of Vheshrame, the city’s ambassador to the dreadful monster Vae, the patron noble of a household full of misfits called Castle Wrong, and a diary-keeper. After the death of the last of zir college friends, Sythyry decides to go on vacation in . . .
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A mute siren. A passively rebellious bard. A half-nymph witch hunter. A cursed assassin and spy. And the occasional pegallamacorn. Outcasts of Alyvion chronicles the adventures of four individuals as they influence the fate of Alyvion, a land immersed in magic yet choked with suspicion and fear as both witches and witch hunters war for power. Farcry . . .
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A story of loss and victory, magic and machines, gods and mortals and discovering what it takes to save the world. Led by the vision of the consulary and protected by the dedication of the mage-knights, the world has found peace at last. Or so people believe, but the truth is far less comforting. In this time of peace . . .
Evonalé has never cared for tales of loathsome tyrants, seduced maids, and prophesied saviors. In the world of Aleyi, prophecies always come true. Evonalé herself is supposed to somehow free her grandmother’s enslaved queendom. But she’s merely a child, and her father is the powerful fire mage who subjugates the realm. Evonalé has therefore fled home, her two half-siblings, . . .
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The Outpost was a squat stone structure that was ringed on all sides by high thick walls that were honeycombed with stairways, arrow loops and topped with crenellations festooned with ancient barbed wire. There were dozens of Outposts scattered along the Verge, marking the point of demarcation between the nurturing safety of the Protectorate and the madness of the Barrens. . . .
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For the Ai-Naidar, a species of slim, gracile aliens, caste and tradition are not the shackles that imprison the spirit but the silences that make sense of the music of their lives. The Aphorisms of Kherishdar collects 25 short tales about what it is to have an Ai-Naidari soul: to find comfort in tradition, law and structure; to revere interdependence . . .
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The journal of the griffin, Angharad Godkin: it was her plan to retire peaceably from the army when her sovereign, the Godson, sends her to a barely pacificed province, there to replace its unloved governor. But the journey to Shraeven’s capital may make a traitor, heretic and messiah out of her, if she’s not careful . . . . . .
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“Stone Soul” is a high fantasy serial that tells the tale of men from beggars to kings seeking one thing at any cost; power. The drums of coming war grow louder with every passing hour, and all in Hylnod desperately seek to be one of the victors. . . .
[Note: This review reflects only the first book in the series, which has undergone extensive editing and is currently being re-posted on site.]
Lovers and Beloveds (the first book in An Intimate History of the Greater Kingdom) is an erotic historical fantasy which follows the beginnings of Prince Temmin’s transition from [more . . .]
I speculate that Torn World started with a vision of the survivors of a terrible disaster (The Upheaval) living in an arctic wilderness with the help of huge, mischievous unicorns, and wondering what it would be like when their descendants meet—and clash with—a vast empire that uses steam and time technologies. The Empire is ruled by scientists, themselves descendants [more . . .]