Keren is a sworn knight of Iomedae, proper and disciplined in every way. Her partner, Zae, is the opposite—a curious gnome priestess of the clockwork goddess, who loves nothing more than the chaos of her makeshift hospitals. When a powerful evil artifact is stolen from a crusader stronghold, both knight and gnome are sent to the great city of Absalom and immediately drawn into the clandestine search for the stolen Bloodstone. Sure, they may not be the most powerful or experienced members of their organizations, but that's the whole point—with legendary champions and undead graveknights battling in their race to recover the stone, who’ll notice one young knight and a gnome healer? All they have to do is stay alive long enough to outsmart a thief capable of evading both gods and heroes. No big deal, right?
From author Gabrielle Harbowy comes a novel of love, faith, and undead espionage, set in the award-winning world of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.
The second digital edition, available on paizo.com for the first time, maintains the same editorial content as the previous edition, but includes a sample chapter of a new novel, Godsrain—A Pathfinder Novel, and updated back matter.
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Excellent! I've been waiting for this since before it was a thing and I can't wait to hold and read this!
Also! Physical copies of Gabrielle's (first?) Hellmaw novel, "Of the Essence" are now available on hersite. They're both gorgeous, but the hard cover is amazing.
Thanks so much for the update, I was a little concerned! Franchise fiction is usually a no-no for me, but the Tales consistently punch above their weight; I'd be really sad trying to find something similar. Sword and Sorcery with decent writing, worldbuilding, and one-shottedness is really tough to source!
This story meandered between plot-driven and character-driven and the pacing suffered for it, never building up any real tension.
The relationship between Keren and Zae was an interesting and bold choice. I was surprised that they didn't argue about faith, considering that Brigh and Iomedae have very different philosophies. I was even more surprised that the whole inter-species aspect of their relationship didn't seem to matter a lot (aside from Keren's anxiety of not being interesting enough for her gnome lover, which was a nice touch). While reading, I asked myself constantly "wouldn't the size difference make a lot of things akward?" I had to check my CRB to find out that it wasn't as extreme as I had imagined (a female gnome has an average size of 3'3" and a female human 5'4". There are 'odd couples' like this in real life.) Still, I would expect that even in an openminded metropolis like Absalom, relationships between humans and small folk would be seen as somewhat scandalous (I recall that relationships between humans and halflings were a thing in Kaer Maga, but I'm not aware of any other).
I don't suppose there is any new word on an Audible release for this? I quite enjoyed the first outing for these characters in the web stories, and want to check this one out, but sadly Audio books are really the only way I can get through a novel recently.
I don't suppose there is any new word on an Audible release for this? I quite enjoyed the first outing for these characters in the web stories, and want to check this one out, but sadly Audio books are really the only way I can get through a novel recently.
Also something I want! I played a Warpriest of Brigh in our Iron Gods game, and a war-wizard of Iomadae in our Wrath of the Righteous game. This book appeals to both of my interests!
Now available for the first time on paizo.com as an e-book. Note that the price of the e-book has been reduced from the previous edition to match the price of the rest of the Pathfinder Tales line.