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The Jesters need a break – they're not going to get one. Depleted by casualties, marred by personal loss, and driven to the brink of exhaustion, the galaxy's most-feared partisans have fled to the furthest corner of the stars to lick their wounds. But the war isn't done with them. Driven to desperation by a shortage of the hyper fuels needed to power their interstellar empire, the Grand Galactic Alliance launches a frenzy of attacks. Invading every...
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They thought they'd won. They thought it was over. The Defenders of the Remordan Valley have smashed the barbarian horde that spilled out of the frozen wastes to plunder their cities and farmlands. They've blasted the wizard that incited their rampage from existence. They've slain the elven traitor that led them. But it was all a ruse. It was all a distraction. While the defenders were facing a human threat in the north, a thoroughly inhuman one has...
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A PERILOUS WORLD… Aldair has trembled on the brink of catastrophe for an age. Now a reckoning draws near. Decadent and divided human kingdoms do not see it, focused on their petty rivalries. Only one King, lord of a dying nation, warns of it, but none heed him. And the Fey, the prideful elven nations of the south, see only advantage in catastrophe. The rise of a blood cult in their midst doesn't give them pause. The mania of a new monarch and his...
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A NEW NATION – Aulus Septimus Quintorius has welded the disparate peoples of Zanturia together, uniting this fractious land of exiles under the banner of one Republic. His New Order stands on its own, strong for the first time. But its prosperity and success make it a threat to all who would rule by tyranny.
AN OLD ENEMY – the Namorians, who once held the whole of Zanturia pinned under the hobnails of their legions, have not forgiven, or forgotten....
5) Cry Havoc
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Bitterly divided, the galaxy hurtles for civil war. On one side, the wounded but still mighty Grand Galactic Alliance gathers its massive resources for a conflict it believes inevitable-and easily won. On the other, the breakaway worlds of the Union of Free Stars struggle to assemble star fleets or even a functional government. Both sides fear the Hell's Jesters. The Alliance cringes in anticipation of another of their partisan raids, which elude...
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For the free peoples of Remordan, the end is near.
The Defenders of the Valley are battered, divided, and on the run. The forces of darkness-goblinoid hordes, a demigoddess out of the worst nightmares of the past, and an elven traitor still clinging by one strand to his soul-are on the offensive. With the district capitol fallen, only a few cities and a few erstwhile allies remain to check them.
But where friendships endure, there is hope.
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The Remordan Valley in the hinterlands of the Thyrrian Empire – home to misfits and malcontents, but also rugged frontier folk and friendships forged in the hardships of its remote climate. There, you can make a new start, or disappear. There, you can build a life with tenacity, honest work, and – sometimes – a good sword.
But not all are drawn to the Valley for its freedom. Dark ruins haunt its wildernesses, and darker entities languish in...
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PAGES OF PEELED SKIN- taken from the depraved, the decadent, and the doomed. Once a piece of the body is torn off and bound between its sticky covers, the rest never knows independence, is enslaved to the will of the Tome of Flesh. Its cultists will do anything, no matter how treacherous or gruesome. WORDS OF THE DAMNED – the souls of those slain in the service of the Tome speak through it still. Their lies call across the world, luring the greedy...
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Anzo "the Weasel" Severnus, agent of the Aurridian Courier Service – or what is more commonly known as a spy – has been looking to retire. But with the dysfunctional Empire threatened from within as well as without, that's wishful thinking. And now a mysterious threat from beyond the bulwarks of civilization looms large and the Aurids need their Weasel, once more. It's more than just a job, this time. Anzo shares blood with the barbarians threatening...
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The Old Wolf limps for home. A dark predator tracks her. And a malevolent entity awaits them both. Wounded in battle, her crew tormented by the heartbreak of their last mission, battlecruiser Tenacity trudges back for the Republic of Sanctuary. But the distress call of a long-lost derelict leads to a side-trip Captain Dath Raker cannot ignore. And more, the shipwreck holds a mystery that may threaten the whole galaxy. They are not alone in their investigation....
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YOU CAN'T KEEP A GOOD TYRANT DOWN...OR DEAD... It is said Thyss-Mallak ruled Xyxia longer than any ten men could have lived. Seers still speak of an empire of hideous beauty, built and sustained at unholy cost. But the horrid truth of it all has long been lost, buried under endless wastes and a thousand generations of history. Until now… War comes to the sad remnants of once-fearsome Xyxia, propelled by an Emperor's religious zeal and his nobles'...
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The Remordan Valley is at peace. Greenness and life, quickened by the long days of summer, has begun healing over the scars of the Spring War. Cities rise anew. And with the perils past, heroes have gone their separate ways, back to businesses, to journeys of discovery or long-delayed responsibility. But with the first whispers of autumn, darkness creeps back into the Valley. A former wizard's apprentice is not all she seems. And a millennia-old war...
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When sorcery can't conjure freedom, the rifle will have to do.
In the Kingdom of Novaraum, industrial revolution triggers a political one. Duchies split off to form "free" states and armies prepare fearsome new weapons. But a ruling class long-dependent on magic to justify their tyranny won't let go easily.
Few know this better than sorceress Jenna Farmoon. She thought nothing could pull her back into their world-certainly not their fratricidal...
14) Rebel Hell
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War is hell, and now it's reached the Jesters' doorstep. Emboldened by early victories, the Alliance fleet strikes deep into the Union of Free Stars, bent on bringing its rebel planets back under their yoke. And more than politics drives them; their appetites have drained loyal worlds of resources. Only from untapped Union worlds can they find further sustenance. This is more than war for the Hell's Jesters. The Alliance now rampages amongst star...
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One of the galaxy's oldest societies. An ancient, terrible secret. And Tenacity caught in the middle. Out of the ashes of the Old Kings' galactic empire rose the Morvena, psychically-gifted, spiritually potent, and scarred by a history of servitude. Alone of the star nations, they warned of the rise of the Golgothan Star Empire and their mind-spider masters, the Arathra. But now, internal divisions threaten to topple them from within. They are one...
16) Hell's Jesters
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The Grand Galactic Alliance rots from within, and now the disease is terminal. As interplanetary governance deteriorates, the mega-corporations sweep into the vacuum with their own form of order: their Will, propped up by brute, paramilitary force. Lives mean nothing. Profit overrides peace. And everyone is out for themselves.
The people cry out for heroes. They find them in the Hell's Jesters, once marauders of the space lanes, now outlaws with...
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A burnout captain. An obsolete starship. One more mission for both. Tenacity is the last of the Fenris-class battlecruisers, the "Old Wolf" as her crew calls her. Captain Dath Raker-storied, scarred, and outrageous-gets called worse. But the command's been his last, best chance to shine, even if it's just showing the Republic of Sanctuary flag while ferrying a delegation to peace talks. The Republic's deadliest rival has no interest in peace. Deranged...
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All things have their breaking point – and the war for the galaxy is about to reach its own. The Union of Free Stars was supposed to collapse after six months of galactic civil war. Instead, worlds flock to their cause as their hard-luck star fleet ekes out key victories in battle. And the Grand Galactic Alliance, beginning to run out of the hyper-fuel necessary to power the superluminal reach of their empire, resorts to ever more fascistic means...
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Things rarely stay below the surface...
Maunathyrr, proud, ancient, and wealthy, rules the southeast Mid Sea basin. Its independence from other kingdoms--and their laws--draws the hopeful of the whole world to it, from naive political agitators to refugees to criminals fleeing their pasts. It is a city of possibility, where brains or a good sword might win you a life unthought of anywhere else.
Sirus "the Snake" Sedonus and his partner, the Vothan...
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AGAINST THE ODDS… For endless, hellish weeks, Ranai, Holy City of the One God of Man, has endured relentless bombardment from the Feyan Empire's devilish heavy artillery. Its defenders have thrown back maniacal assaults and gruesome sorceries. Rivalries, factions, and outright treason have nearly broken its leadership. But still it stands. A FORLORN HOPE… The Knights of the Reckoning, having crossed the sea to defend the Holy City, have been reduced...