If you're into fantasy that weaves magic, monsters and mayhem flawlessly with pops of humor, then you have found your next read.

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"How does it change you to become such a Blade? What happens to the mind when it is forged into a weapon? These are questions few ask, but all should. Those few who do question what we have allowed ourselves to become. They fear us, and they are right to do so. We are dangerous. There is a violence in us that is all the more awful and awe-inspiring because it is directed and restrained.

Terror is our armament, but it is only one in our arsenal. And our armory is vast."

 

- Trenton, Master of the Gates

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“The apocalypse has happened before. It will happen again. It is a cyclical thing, a force of nature, like a comet, a geyser, or a migration. Just as old age threatens us all, withers our limbs and bends our spines, entropy lurks at the edges of civilization, waiting to show us the face of our bestial selves. And when the darkness comes, when the world falls to ashes and the light of knowledge fails to shine, humanity forgets what was learned.

 

Science becomes the stuff of magic, but when the magic fails to work it is neglected.

Memory dies.

Legends fade.

 

All is forgotten, and humanity is the poorer for it. Unless someone can keep the flame alive.”

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– Eric Driesen

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