Wars and Rumors of Wars: Complete Edition (Blackmount) (Volume 1)
Description
We've heard it all before. Orcs are petty, coarse and savage. Great green brutes with feral tusks, devoid of culture and of reason. It's been said they have no souls and that the gods themselves disdain them. At least, that's how the campfire tales would have it.But what if there were more? Another side to all-things-green. A birthright yet to find a claimant, lying undiscovered in the bedrock of their ancient hollowed mountain?
WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS takes up the tale of one beleaguered hybrid, sired against all wishes and kept against all odds, and of the mess that swirls around him as he tries to find his place between his human and orcish halves. If only anything were simple! Larger games are already in progress on the board he wanders onto. Angels, gods both real and false, imperial trade cartels, a foreign Fae-elf spy, and other mortal leaders all have stakes in whose pawns these Orcs turn out to be.Turning conventions of Epic Fantasy gleefully on-end, the BLACKMOUNT series takes an entirely fresh approach to what the genre can be about. In the words of one Orc who knows the Halfbreed Warchief first-hand:
Fans of Bradbury, Adams, Clarke and Pratchett will find themselves right at home in this introspective political thriller cleverly disguised as epic fantasy.
