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Shield of Sea and Space by Erin Hoffman

Shield of Sea and Space

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Erin Hoffman

Pyr · Ebook · May 7, 2013

Vidarian Rulorat, called the Tesseract, a powerful magic-user whose abilities spread across multiple elements, finds himself at war with the Alorean Import Company, a powerful cabal of merchants wealthy enough to buy nations.

Epic FantasyFantasy AdventureDragons & Mythic Creaturesmagic
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Who it’s for
Vidarian faces a wealthy merchant company bent on eliminating species to hoard Andovar’s magic.
Themes
Wild magic and elemental technology, Species survival, Greed and political power
Pacing
Fast

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About this book

Vidarian Rulorat, called the Tesseract, a powerful magic-user whose abilities spread across multiple elements, finds himself at war with the Alorean Import Company, a powerful cabal of merchants wealthy enough to buy nations. By opening the gate between worlds, Vidarian released the Starhunter, goddess of chaos.

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With her coming, wild magic returned to the world of Andovar, bringing with it shape- changers and strange awakened elemental technologies, including many-sailed ships powered by air magic, and mechanical automata lit from within by earth and fire. Now, Vidarian discovers that the Alorean Import Company is determined to eliminate two- thirds of this new life on Andovar in the hopes of hoarding more magic for themselves in a new, worldwide plutocracy. Along with his human, gryphon, and shapechanger allies, he must stop the Company if he is to safeguard any future for the diverse life of Andovar, including his and Ariadel's newborn daughter. With the existence of whole species hanging in the balance, Vidarian is locked in a race for the future of the world.

Andovar’s Wild Magic

Vidarian faces a wealthy merchant company bent on eliminating species to hoard Andovar’s magic.

Come here for

  • A merchant cabal seeking control of magic
  • Wild magic and awakened elemental technologies

Expect

  • Human, gryphon, and shapechanger allies
  • A conflict over species survival and political power

Where it sits

Epic Fantasy99%
Dragons & Mythic Creatures41%
Fantasy Adventure27%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Fantasy
  • Epic Fantasy
  • War Fiction
Authors
Erin Hoffman
Publisher
Pyr
Published
May 7, 2013
Format
Ebook
Theme
Wild magic and elemental technology · Species survival · Greed and political power
Reading lane
Fantasy