This fantasy tale is the third in an interlocked collection unified by the five-thousand year history and culture of a barren region called the Waste. The whole collection (Tales of the Waste) spans belief in magic to practical science, myth to recorded history and the rise of successive empire from the ruins of countless others. All these rose and fell in the same region, which may or may not have been preceded by races called forerunners who left still evident remnants. This particular novel is focused on power and its consolidation as the barbarians wait to pounce. By this time the Empire...
This fantasy tale is the third in an interlocked collection unified by the five-thousand year history and culture of a barren region called the Waste....
In this tale I introduce you again to Hemetuck, the White Dwarf, court jester and general adventurer much addicted to japes that oft backfire to his discomfiture. He again finds himself with a challenge all too common for those of his ilk in that he must travel across a difficult waste full of dangerous barbarians and vicious demons. It is long ago, but he still inhabits a world where successive Empires have risen and fallen for eons. History has faded into fantasy and myth, but a history where competing barbarian hordes see the old cities as a source of wealth and plunder. In many ways this...
In this tale I introduce you again to Hemetuck, the White Dwarf, court jester and general adventurer much addicted to japes that oft backfire to his d...