It is also an opportunity to get even with the infanzones, the nobles he’s lived under all his life, and it so happens that Tristan has a full ledger’s worth of scores to settle with them. But not all is lost, for his mentor offers a way out of peril that turns out to be more than a simple escape. ![]() Quick wit and a contract with a capricious goddess have always kept him one step ahead, until one night he crosses a line by accident that burns all the bridges he had left. ![]() Tristan Abrascal is a thief, one of many making their living under the perpetual twilight of the greatest city in all of Vesper: Sacromonte. It will begin with Scholomance, the ancient school of the order opened again for the first time in over a century, and the students who will walk its halls. Yet its captain-generals know the strength of their companies has waned, and to meet the coming doom measures will have to be taken. God-killers whose duty is to enforce the peace between men and monsters, the Watch would hunt the shadows. Conspiracies bloom behind every throne, gods of the Old Night offer wicked pacts to those who would tear down the order things and of all Vesper only the Watch has seen the signs of the madness to come. The fragile peace that emerged after the last of the Succession Wars is falling apart, the great powers squabbling over trade and colonies. So it has been for millennia, from the fabled reign of the Antediluvians to these modern nights of blackpowder and sail. Few venture beyond its cast, for in the monstrous and primordial darkness of the Gloam old gods and devils prowl as men made into darklings worship hateful powers. It is the unblinking stare of the never-setting sun that destroyed the Old World, the cruel mortar that allows survival far below. Vesper is a world built on the ruins of older ones: in the dark of that colossal cavern no one has ever known the edges of, empires rise and fall like flickering candles.Ĭivilization huddles around pits of the light that falls through the cracks in firmament, known by men as the Glare. I’m already most of the way through the first book of Pale Lights, which you can read here on my wordpress and is getting crossposted to Royal Road.įor those curious, I’ll put here the hook for the series and for the first book ( it’s where the wordpress link will lead you). It’s now been a little over a year since A Practical Guide to Evil came to an end, so I decided it’s a good time to mention that my new series is up and running. The author can be contacted at no circumstances will Epub, PDF files, audiobooks or translation of the Guide be allowed. First update of every month will be accompanied by an Extra Chapter. Updates every Tuesday and Friday as of the latest Patreon goal. Is there such a thing as doing bad things for good reasons, or is she just rationalizing her desire for control? Good and Evil are tricky concepts, and the more power you get the blurrier the lines between them become. Her name is Catherine Foundling, and she has a plan.Ī Practical Guide to Evil is a YA fantasy novel about a young girl named Catherine Foundling making her way through the world – though, in a departure from the norm, not on the side of the heroes. Yet none of this matters, for in the heart of the conquered lands the most dangerous man alive sat across an orphan girl and offered her a knife. The greatest danger lies to the west, where the First Prince of Procer has finally claimed her throne: her people sundered, she wonders if a crusade might not be the way to secure her reign. ![]() In the north the Forever King eyes the ever-expanding borders of the Empire and ponders war. The nobles of the Wasteland, denied the power they crave, weave their plots behind pleasant smiles. For twenty years the Dread Empress has ruled over the lands that were once the Kingdom of Callow, but behind the scenes of this dawning golden age threats to the crown are rising.
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