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Forsworn by Brian McClellan, The Powder Mage #0.2 Erika ja Leora is a powder mage in northern Kez, a place where that particular sorcery is punishable by death. She is only protected by her family name and her position as heir to a duchy. When she decides to help a young commoner—a powder mage marked for death, fugitive from the law—she puts her life and family reputation at risk and sets off to deliver her new ward to the safety of Adro while playing cat and mouse with the king’s own mage hunters and their captain, Duke Nikslaus. Occurs 35 years before the events in Promise of Blood. Last year Orbit launched on of their biggest debuts, The Promise of Blood , by Brian McClellan. A first for me in flintlock fantasy: muskets and gunpowder galore! Brian McClellan introduced a very cool setting with Promise of Blood , it is not pure military fantasy because there is a very pronounced backdrop of magic. The Powder Mage should say enough already. His world features a special type ...

The Crimson Campaign by Brian McClellan, The Powder Mage #2 'The hounds at our heels will soon know we are lions' Tamas's invasion of Kez ends in disaster when a Kez counter-offensive leaves him cut off behind enemy lines with only a fraction of his army, no supplies, and no hope of reinforcements. Drastically outnumbered and pursued by the enemy's best, he must lead his men on a reckless march through northern Kez to safety, and back over the mountains so that he can defend his country from an angry god. In Adro, Inspector Adamat only wants to rescue his wife. To do so he must track down and confront the evil Lord Vetas. He has questions for Vetas concerning his enigmatic master, but the answers might come too quickly. With Tamas and his powder cabal presumed dead, Taniel Two-shot finds himself alongside the god-chef Mihali as the last line of defence against Kresimir's advancing army. Tamas's generals bicker among themselves, the brigades lose g...