Sons of Darkness

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He too, in the outer framework of the story, is one of the children of this world, and he admires the sharpness and quickness of the steward's action.

Sons of Darkness: an Indian inspired epic dark fantasy that Sons of Darkness: an Indian inspired epic dark fantasy that

It is also a theological discourse that develops the doctrine of the spirits of truth and perversity mentioned in the sect’s Manual of Discipline.I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses. Though he was doing well as a lawyer in Mumbai, he is now pursuing the infinitely more unattainable dream of being the first 'epic fantasy novelist' of India.

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It is perhaps the most effective prologue I’ve seen used since the Rage of Dragons and that’s because it does two things, very effectively and efficiently: tells us the ‘why‘ and I mean the ‘why is anyone here in the main plot doing anything’ and the ‘what’ as in what’s to come. And he is just one of many characters, like the plotting Krishna who I don’t very much like; Shishupal the disaffected Claw of the Magadh Empire; Shakuni, the tortured spy-master, and Nala, the girl risen again. I had always yearned to see an ancient India where drab mud brown was swapped for obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli.Fantasy suffers from the same cultures explored, the same western histories interspersed into the stories over and over again, so we need books like the Sons of Darkness that build their stories from a different foundation. Nonetheless, the War Scroll may indeed reflect genuine political tension in Judea between Romans and Jews, which would culminate in the outbreak of revolt in 66 CE.