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The Omens of War
Blurb
Lovecraft meets George R.R. Martin meets Marcus Aurelius and Jean-Paul Sartre in this genre-blending cosmic horror fantasy.
In the fortress of Egon Hold, strategist Dante Praeto becomes the unwilling host of the War Games: a simulated battle fundamental to rising in the ranks of Firard’s Legions. As the contestants march towards the ravine shared with their enemy nation, a landslide swallows the soldiers within.
Across that ravine, Lady Calya Seve guards the Sestelii frontier, aware the War Games will provoke a diplomatic upheaval. She deals in treaties and political alliances, but little does she know the next threat isn’t coming through the border.
Unbeknownst to them, both are pieces in a larger scheme: a game played by eldritch beings for whom entire nations are little more than tools, and humans mere pawns. For in the end, the alchemists of The Orders will unleash chaos in their eternal pursuit of arcane knowledge.
The omens of war will be heard by all.
The Omens of War by Livia J. Elliot
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More About This Book
- It is multi-pov: two human characters, two alchemists.
- Third person past tense narration.
- Has a chapter and interludes structure.
- Roman-inspired setting.
- Alchemy as a hard magic system, but not the traditional alchemy.
- Planned for a quartet, can become a quintet, but not determined yet.
- Grim but not gratuitous.
- The horror is existential, no scare jumps.
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