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A Brief History of Epic Fantasy
I recently picked up Kate Elliott’s Crown of Stars series, a somewhat forgotten epic fantasy from the ‘90s beginning with King’s Dragon (1997). Elliott is one of the grandmasters of the fantasy genre, so the prose compares favorably to the bulk of epic fantasies published today. For most seasoned fantasy readers, the story will feel a bit familiar and tropey, but the execution is so refined that I
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"I loved how layered this story is. There’s magic and large scale conflict, but also deeply personal struggles underneath it all. The themes of complicity and responsibility were especially well done. It gives the book substance beyond adventure. High"
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"This is a stunning opening book in author Lorimer's new series. This book will make you think inside the box and then you fall out the bottom into the vivid world of Hebdomar and see everything in a whole new light. I laughed, cried, and got chills r"
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“It is both strength and weakness that I am not easily saddened—not prone to melancholia nor bouts of general malaise. As I watched these offerings taking their leisure in the Mahak’s garden, I felt nothing but rage. This sacrifice by fire reeked of eldritch sorcery, but it was a familiar stench, for every culture on the face of Hebdomar still carried foul hints of its sordid bouquet. All manner of blood has been spilled in pursuit of divine favor, but an inordinate share belongs to women—to the young and the pure. Men great and small tremble before the mystique of female sexuality. They seek to squeeze it and bridle it—to see it throttled and, yes, destroyed. I do not deny that some mean spark may be released in its destruction, but to see such a power nourished? To cultivate it? To guide it through its fullest bloom? There lies a power to debase every haughty sorcerer and necromage—to bend every monarch and send crass thaumaturges screaming for their middens.”
― Seven Days of Mercy for the Apostatic Priest
― Seven Days of Mercy for the Apostatic Priest
“We are artifacts, you and I. Fossils of a murdered deity rendered down to mud and stone. Irreducible reflections of a divine spark, beautiful and terrible. Fallen and pure. It is a lonely condition—containment. To be both blessed and forsaken, haunted and ignored. Our fallen G-d still reaches for us across that infinite gulf, and we are cursed to reach infinitely back. Nature abhors a vacuum, and we are nature and this abhorrence both. This is why the Selki still speak the old hymns and the Huskan Clerics their feral mantras, reduced by time and memory to an insensate blur. It’s why the Lucente poison themselves with lichen, lying wasted in oneiric fog. It’s why the Elan Friars spend their lives painting votive murals only to see them burned. After all this time, The Karochan kantors still sing in trope, and the Celukids hang new ribs from their Abattoir with every passing moon. Prayers by a thousand names, cast in as many tongues into the same deaf void.
My job is to keep it that way.”
― Seven Days of Mercy for the Apostatic Priest
My job is to keep it that way.”
― Seven Days of Mercy for the Apostatic Priest
“Staked to a geode… She wouldn’t dare. Muldoon was a born Patrician. A Gifted servant of the Great Admiral Sprichor and a decorated war veteran, to boot. He had too many friends in high positions across the sky—too many powerful patrons waiting in Toran.
But the skies were vast, and Toran was far away.”
― Ophiuchus Flinched
But the skies were vast, and Toran was far away.”
― Ophiuchus Flinched
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