Four unlikely companions enter the Empty Lands, a realm of mythic monsters and ancient evil, in an alternate Europe where Rome never fell.
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Four unlikely companions enter the Empty Lands, a realm of mythic monsters and ancient evil, in an alternate Europe where Rome never fell.
Since ancient days, the Empty Lands had stood between the eastern barbarians and the two-thousand-year-old civilization of Rome and the Church. For the Empty Lands were not really empty-they were filled with every evil from the darkest of mankind's myths, and one power more horrible than could be found in any myth.
Now four puny humans set out to invade the heartland of the Evil. Each had a personal reason. Harcourt went reluctantly to rescue his long-lost fiancée, who had been seized by the...
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Fiancée-rescue motive; mild companion bonds, no explicit content
Battles with ogres, dragons, trolls, and other mythical horrors
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Church, abbey, and abbot central; quest for a saint's trapped soul
Wizards, sorcerers, and mythic creatures drive the fantasy quest
Ancient dark Power seeks souls; Lovecraftian elder-god evil
Alternate-history backdrop where the Roman Empire never fell
One character seeks death as kinder than his known future
Fiancée seized in a terror raid; captivity by evil forces
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