One of those Privileged has escaped Tamas' cull. It makes him perfect for killing the old Privileged sorcerers with their destructive magic. He can manipulate its properties to shoot out a man's eye at twice the length of a battlefield. Gunpowder makes him stronger and faster than other men. Yet his actions have far-reaching consequences of which no reasonable man could have conceived, and the king will prove the easiest obstacle to overcome in his quest to free Adro.Ĭaptain Taniel Two-shot is a powder mage of considerable skill. Tamas has brought revolution to his country in one bloody night to save his people and right the wrongs caused by the old regime. His powder mages have slaughtered the king's Privileged cabal of sorcerers and the nobility has been rounded up to face the guillotine with their king. The Publisher's Marketplace announcement is thus:īrian McClellan's PROMISE OF BLOOD, a debut trilogy set in a world inspired by the revolutionary turmoil of 18th-century Europe complete with guillotines, starving peasants, fanatical royalists and a hero whose survival depends on a small group of honorable mages, including his own estranged son, to Devi Pillai at Orbit, in a good deal, in a three-book deal, for publication in Summer 2013, by Caitlin Blasdell at Liza Dawson Associates (World English).įield Marshal Tamas has staged a coup against the king of Adro. A couple weeks ago I announced the sale of Promise of Blood and two untitled sequels to Orbit Books.
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