About the Book
A fix-up novel.
Tempus: Avatar of the war-god Vashanka, he carves his anti-magical philosophy in the bodies of the detestable mages and demons of a world he never made but is cursed to inhabit.
Niko: No godling he, just a warrior who has found the secret of his soul in the mysterious Western Isles – and so wields a pure and faithful power that makes him all too attractive to the gods and elementals of a world infested mainly with murderers and thieves.
Together: Needing time to recover from the spells of a witch who nearly ate his soul, Niko will recover his self-mastery by reliving in utterly vivid detail all the most violent and transforming moments of his past – and that of his rightside leader, Tempus.
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: Parts of this work have been published in substantially similar form in several volumes of the shared universe series, THIEVES' WORLD.
