Mage's Blood (Moontide Quartet)

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Werewolves: I think it was mentioned somewhere in 1st edition of Requiem that each success on a feeding roll vs a werewolf gives 2 Vitae, but the werewolf might go into Death Rage. Maybe werewolf blood can also grant temporary Spirit vision if consumed in large quantities or from a powerful werewolf. Mages: Experience something like the Mage Sight — and become vulnerable to supernal entities whose attentions you suffer. The convergent and divergent paths the myriad of characters is what holds this book together and when it clearly shows the paths overlapping and finally starting to come together there is a real sense of excitement.

Similarly, the Harvest craft that increases flask effect does not deplete because the flasks are not actively used. The Harvest enchantment Enchant a Flask with a modifier that grants 50% increased Effect. The magnitude of this effect decreases with each use can be used if the player does not have enough Enkindling Orbs. After the mage Antonin Meiros created the 300-mile-long Leviathan Bridge, which appears every 13 years at the Moontide, the formerly isolated continents of wealthy Yuros (modeled on Europe) and impoverished Antipoia (modeled on India and the Middle East) have interacted through both trade and two bloody crusades, led by Yuros magi who want to conquer Antipoia. As the next Moontide and crusade approach, turmoil abounds. A famous artifact used to create new mages is missing, and it falls on shunned mage student Alaron Mercer to find it. When the Ankesharan ruling family faces extermination, the mage Elena Anborn, once the family’s enemy, becomes their strongest defender. And Meiros has bought an Antipoian wife, Ramita, hoping their children will bring peace—but her lover, Kazim, wants Meiros dead. This multilayered beginning to the Moontide Quartet plunges readers into a taut network of intrigue and mystery that tightens with each chapter. Hair portrays a stark and beautiful world breaking apart, with both good and evil characters desperate to reshape it through magic, war, and treachery. This strong debut should draw in fantasy readers of all stripes. (Sept.) Publishers Weekly Mage's Blood has a richness to it that comes so close to the actual history and customs of Europe and the Near East as to make me periodically stop and wonder whether I was remembering my history wrong or I had just tripped over one of the fantasy world's small, intentional tweaks . . . Fans of Game of Thrones will delight in the existence of this different-yet-similar fantasy series.— New Myths Double-Influenced Item "So desperate was I for control, I turned my entire world into a prison. Now you will share in my agony." I don't know if the author (the series is planned for 4 books) maybe makes a connection to our world and this is some future version of our own, where the sea has risen, but for now there are no imminent signs for this.This multilayered beginning to the Moontide Quartet plunges readers into a taut network of intrigue and mystery that tightens with each chapter. Hair portrays a stark and beautiful world breaking apart, with both good and evil characters desperate to reshape it through magic, war, and treachery. This strong debut should draw in fantasy readers of all stripes— Publishers Weekly So proclaimeth the living saint Lucia Fasterius, with whose elevation Mage’s Blood begins. The mother of the Emperor in the West seems “intelligent, learned — kindly, even. But in her eyes something fanatic lurked, like a venomous snake.” This idea in particular proves pivotal to the narrative elements ahead, though the Mater-Imperia does a bang-up job of preparing readers in a more general sense, speaking as she does to what is clearly the quartet’s core conflict—between opposing beliefs and competing creeds, and the people caught in the crossfire—as well as introducing us to one of the opening act’s most fascinating characters.

The Rondian emperor, overlord of the west, is hell-bent on ruling both continents, and for the last two Moontides he has led armies of battle-magi across the bridge on crusades of conquest, pillaging his way across Antiopa.If the writing wasn’t so disjointed & the storyline didn’t jump around so much & if the character actually got on & did things it might have been ok. Bullying in schools and online is a very serious problem and we, as writers and readers, need to do everything in our power to raise awareness and combat this issue that severely harms our children. For all that, though, what I most adored about Mage’s Blood was its unflinching focus on character, particularly as regards Meiros and Ramita, and Ramita and Kazim. The incremental evolution of these strained relationships over the course of the first of The Moontide Quartet’s four volumes is as emotional as it is surprising. By the conclusion, these three are completely different people, and in the interim, Hair handles their development very well.

It's got some great descriptions, and the various political hierarchies are explained well which means that even though there's a big emphasis on manipulation of politics it's fairly easy to follow and keep everyone straight in your head.No idea, was like the first film in a series where they try to set the scene for the following films just without letting you know what the story is actually going to be eventually, I found myself wishing that they’d just get on with it & do something interesting

Double-Influenced Item "Oh no, I couldn't possibly afford this fine artefact. I'm... just looking." People do the worst evil when they do not have to take responsibility themselves but can blame others.” The world is what immediately strikes the reader. Right away, the author creates a living, breathing world on both sides of the fictional ocean. It certainly tested my patience for a while, but the immersive capability of the engaging writing and the superbly written characterizations in Mage’s Blood impressively pulled me into Urte. It’s enormous in scope, and it’s full of flawed-characters that I empathize with; by the end of the novel, I am seriously excited—and terrified—to know what will happen next to the characters of the series. Many bad things have happened, and it seems like their torturous fate has only just begun. I’m moving onto Scarlet Tides immediately.Changelings: Excessive consumption of changeling blood may cause altered states of consciousness and the perceived ability to communicate and bargain with abstract concepts.