![]() ![]() Anyone Can Die and An Arm and a Leg are in full effect. War Is Hell: A theme that is prevalent throughout his entire work.If the reader knows his history he will have a lot of unexpected fun. The author only added magic and new races. A very good example is "The Ten Thousand", which is basically a renarration of the Anabasis of Xenophon. Therefore there are a lot of similarities to historic events. Very Loosely Based on a True Story: As allready mentioned the author is a huge history buff (his own words).Even if English is your first language you will have some problems with the denomination of parts of the ships and the names of different kinds of wind. Read 53 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. But where it really gets hardcore is the seafaring in sailing ships. Some military authorities you will only recognice if you are familiar with the military organisation of the Persian Empire. The use of the word Polemarch for Strategist is one of the milder examples. Shown Their Work: All the historical terms are used correctly.Chances are good that they're meant to be a remnant of a spacefaring civilization, and the "Curse of God" cuirasses are leftover pieces of a more high-tech sets of armor. Magic from Technology: it's mentioned briefly in Corvus that the Macht people came from the stars and that their first city had walls of metal.Corfe Cear-Inaf, now a colonel, is given a ragtag command of ill-equipped savages and sent on a hopeless mission by a jealous King who expects him to fail. But their life expectancy is rather short. Struck down in his moment of victory, Hebrions young King Abeleyn lies in a coma, his city in ruins and his fiancee and former lover vying for the throne. Hollywood Tactics: Not generally averted as some characters make use of them.Expect the most ruthless and pragmatic characters to win, or at least to survive. Crapsack World: While not every World is this, they all are very dirty and generally inhabited by selfish humans who do not care very much about others. ![]()
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