Chosen of the Sun

Exalted: Trilogy of the Second Age #1

by Richard Dansky

Before there was a World of Darkness
Before there was a World of Darkness, there was something else. It was a land of turmoil in the Second Age of man. It was a time of high adventure and heroes re-born. It was a setting of savage peril and sprawling decadence. It was the world of Exalted.
The Trilogy of the Second Age is the first White Wolf fiction series set in this fantastic time and place.

Genres: Fantasy

288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

By day, Richard Dansky works as a professional video game designer and writer for Red Storm/Ubisoft, with credits on games like Splinter Cell: Blacklist. By night, he writes fiction, with his most recent book being the short fiction collection SNOWBIRD GOTHIC. Richard lives in North Carolina with his wife and their inevitable cats, books, and collection of single malt whiskys.

Reviews

[Bruce · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not worthwhile except to get more info for gaming. The writing is so poor that its near unreadable.

[Jason · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fantastic beginning to a trilogy that covers so much of the gamut of the world of the Second Age as presented in the Exalted role-playing game, this trilogy stands alone without requiring any knowledge of the game Exalted. Indeed, it would serve well as an overview of the game if one was needed. Having three books to develop his tale, Richard Dansky has free rein to explore the world and his characters, taking his time to establish all that the reader needs to feel drawn into this story. Despite this, the book moves along at an exciting pace, never getting bogged down in needless detail. The true depth of the book is in the author’s development of the inhabitants of the world, as he switches back and forth between varying characters, some minor, some major. Indeed, it may take you a while to fully understand who the main characters are, and some minor characters that you get attached to might not make it to the end of the story. This uncertainty of the epic helps to pull you in and drag you along. It makes you keep reading, invested in these characters that are threatened by the circumstances of the story. The heroes are sympathetic; the villains are fun enough that you just love to hate them. Combat is dynamic without being formulaic and trite, and the lore is engaging without being overwhelming. A great beginning to a trilogy.

[Christy · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was really rough. I've had it on my shelf for years, since my WhiteWolf days at college. It didn't hit the mark, at all. Dull, skipping all over the place, and nothing really even made much sense other than vague overhead concepts.

[Mike · Rating 2 out of 5]

The First book of a series of three set in the world of Exalted a role playing game by White Wolf. Recently i unpacked all my books after a move and separated the ones i still needed to read, when i came to this series i knew i had read the first book so i put the others to the side. When i picked up the seconds book of the series I kept getting this feeling like i had read it before, after checking the third book i found that i had read all three.
The point is the series as a whole is forgettable to the point you'll know you read it, the whole series could have worked as one book and been continued into 2 other books. Sadly this is one of those series that was made to suck as much money out of a fan base without giving them the quality product they are used to.