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House of Open Wounds

2023624 pagesHead of Zeus

Synopsis

City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to scour the world of superstition. As their legions advance, so a mountain of ragged, holed and scorched flesh is delivered to the field hospital tents just behind the battlefront. Which is where Yasnic, one-time priest, healer and rebel, finds himself. Reprieved from the gallows and sent to war clutching a box of orphan Gods, he has been sequestered to a particularly unorthodox medical unit. Entrusted - for now - with saving lives deemed otherwise un-saveable, the field hospital's crew face a precarious existence. Their work with unapproved magic, necromancy, demonology and Yasnic's thoroughly illicit Gods could lead to the unit being disbanded, arrested or worse.

About the author

Adrian Tchaikovsky is the author of the award-winning Children of Time, a science fiction novel that explores evolution and alien civilizations. He's also known for his fantasy series, Shadows of the Apt.

Characters

YasnicProtagonist
The PalleseenAntagonist
The ButcherSupporting

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Places

The Tyrant Philosophers

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Edition

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4 editions available

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