![]() In a rich, distinctive world that mixes magic with technology, who could stand against mages that control gunpowder and bullets? PROMISE OF BLOOD is the start of a new epic fantasy series from Brian McClellan.Winner of the David Gemmell Morningstar Award for Best Debut Fantasy. No modern educated man believes that sort of thing. Just old peasant legends about the gods waking to walk the earth. But when gods are involved.Now, as attacks batter them from within and without, the credulous are whispering about omens of death and destruction. ![]() household pets, recruited from civilians with the promise that they would someday be. It's up to a few.Stretched to his limit, Tamas is relying heavily on his few remaining powder mages, including the embittered Taniel, a brilliant marksman who also happens to be his estranged son, and Adamat, a retired police inspector whose loyalty is being tested by blackmail. exposed to PFOA and carries the chemical in his or her blood. But it also provoked war with the Nine Nations, internal attacks by royalist fanatics, and the greedy to scramble for money and power by Tamas's supposed allies: the Church, workers unions, and mercenary forces. ![]() It's a bloody business overthrowing a king.Field Marshal Tamas' coup against his king sent corrupt aristocrats to the guillotine and brought bread to the starving. ![]()
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