Resultados para "The Moor" en Fantasía oscura

As their bond grows and their powers evolve, The Unfortunates will face rogue memories, buried loops, and a predator hiding behind a friendly smile. To survive, they'll need more than bathroom humor and trauma—they’ll need each other.

When the Ascension Protocol triggers, the world erupts into chaos as ordinary people suddenly awaken extraordinary abilities. In the aftermath of this cataclysm, society fractures, and the rise of superhumans plunges cities into anarchy.

Brogan McTyre started a war with the gods, and he's going to end it. Raging gods have laid waste to the Five Kingdoms. Only Torema remains, swollen with millions of refugees. Their last hope lies in fleeing by sea, but as storms tear at the coast, even King Opar can't muster enough ships for them all. Brogan and his warriors must fight the He-Kisshi to reach the Gateway, the sole portal for gods to enter the mortal world - and the only place where they can be killed. But the forces of creation have been unleashed, and they'll destroy the world to reshape it.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Haunted Forest Tour! Sit back, and enjoy a smooth ride in air-conditioned comfort as your heavily armored tram takes you through nature's most astonishing creation. The forest is packed to capacity with dangerous and terrifying creatures of all shapes, sizes, and hunger levels, and you'll get to observe these wonders in complete safety.

One of Canada’s most acclaimed horror writers, Gemma Files presents a mosaic of interconnected stories about interconnected families. After fleeing Scotland, five clans settled in the fictional town of Dourvale in northern Ontario. Known as the Five-Family Coven, they are the descendants of witches and witch-children, none of whom were spared persecution in their native country. Now shamans, spellcasters, singers, and thieves, the members of the Devize, Druir, Glouwer, Roke, and Rusk families survive by trading their occult powers and talents.

Serena Bloodworthy was born into a world where the Blessed gods give power to humans. Each person gets a power, until Serena is born. The day she was born changed everything for her, and her family. She is the most powerful person in history, but must hide what the blessed have given her. Everything is simple until the day, it is not. Two new handsome commanders bring news of the queen's untimely death to Darnish. Serena is picked to compete in a deadly trial for the Kings heart. The problem? She must travel with the very people from Darnish she has hidden from her entire life.

Stealing a shard of a dead god’s blood should have been enough adventure for a lifetime. For William Reis, it was just the beginning. William has a single goal in his life, to succeed where generations of others have failed, and gain admittance to the Smithing Guild of Palnor. Men and women from the Reach have tried for years, but all have failed. They have failed for a single reason, a commandment from the Church of Amder. No one from the Reach can ever gain entrance to the Guild. A decree that remains unknown all but the Masters of the Guild, and even they don't know why.

As a sailor whose life is centered around canvas sails and the sea, the last person Isaac ever expects to find in a fairytale is, well...himself. Yet here he stands, on the edge of the River from the storybook his mother used to read to him as a child, watching it flow from one world to another as far as his eyes can see. Adding to this absurdity, he's been dragged here by a beautiful, green fairy with vines for hair and an explosive anger problem—yes, explosive. Also, he had to fight a vicious little old man and his air dragon to get to this point.

"The Corvid's Key" introduces Ann Corrigan, whose quiet life is disrupted when she's drawn into the neighboring woods by an unusually persistent crow. Following the bird's strange guidance, Ann discovers a dilapidated, long-abandoned two-story house—a chilling time capsule where it seems time stopped decades ago. When the crow presents her with an antique key, Ann steps into a mystery that connects her property to a sinister past. This compelling tale is about one woman's journey to solve a decades-old mystery and bring peace to a haunted patch of land.

In a world where revolution ignites the flames of change, the true price of war is exacted upon both oppressors and the oppressed, engulfing the righteous and the morally compromised alike. In Stand, Damien Flynn finds himself thrust into the eye of this relentless storm, where the boundaries between justice and tyranny grow increasingly indistinguishable.

Immortality has been bottled and sold, old age will soon be a distant memory. However, eternal youth has its costs. The worst serial killer the kingdom has ever known, resurfaces after twenty years, to start killing once again. Roykur, a long retired investigator, rejoins the hunt for the one murderer he could never catch. Refusing to accept immortality, Roykur must persevere against his, now youthful, nemesis as well as his age and increasing frailty.

In the eternal darkness of the Fungal Realm of Ūmfalla, two women from different worlds form an unlikely bond and use their newfound powers to try and topple an empire. In Ümfalla, only those with dark-bright eyes can see the way. A Wanderer with a forgotten past and a mechanical-arm named, MĒNA, is one of those few. When she rescues a woman named, RUTHY, who has fallen from Sky Tracer—an abysmal machine that transports stolen children over the dark land to be sacrificed—she is thrust into a fight against the warrior Reapers and magical Weirs for the very existence of the realm.

A fragile peace teeters on the brink of collapse; new players threaten the colonial world order in this award-winning debut historical fantasy novel. Damien Flynn is going to die. And it’s going to happen because he finally stood up for what’s right. After years of observing and taking part in the enduring corruption and oppression of the Ricchan people, Damien Flynn’s conscience wakes. He pushes for the Ricchan right to a vote, for control of their own destiny. He soon learns that bleeding hearts don’t make for good politics, exchanging quills for shackles.

New York - 1948. Nachdem die kaltschnäuzige Hexenreporterin Moira Bran von ihrer Zeitung gefeuert wird, sitzt sie als Lebendfutter für Vampire in einem illegalen Bluthaus fest. Unerwartete Hilfe bekommt sie von Sova Skorpin, einer Dämonin, die Träume stiehlt und als Droge auf dem Schwarzmarkt verkauft. Sie befreit Moira aus dem Bluthaus – allerdings nicht aus Nächstenliebe. Für den Dämonenclan soll Moira vermisste Traumjäger aufspüren, die mutmaßlich entführt wurden.

The year is 1949, the city London. Amidst the smog of the capital stumbles Dennis Knuckleyard, a hapless eighteen year-old employed by a second-hand bookshop. One day, on an errand to acquire books for sale, Dennis discovers a novel that simply does not exist. It is a fictitious book, a figment from another novel. Yet it is physically there in his hands. How? Dennis has stumbled on a book from the Great When, a magical version of London beyond time and space, where reality blurs with fiction and concepts such as Crime and Poetry are incarnated as wondrous, terrible beings.

For 30 years, Elaina has sat in her tower, fingers caught in an eternal dance, cursed to weave the tapestry of life on her loom. Bound by an enchanted mirror whose magic shows her the distant lives of the people of Camelot, she must forever watch a land which remains ever beyond her reach. Elaina despairs that she will ever experience more than just the shadows of life, until one day, a face appears in the mirror that will change her life, and possibly her fate, forever.

This Anthology travels across time to set the tone for the events of Rise: Birth of a Revolution and Stand: The Cost of War. Presented chronologically the stories unravel the events that led to the Ricchan Revolution, checking in with key characters in important moments of their development.

The City of Wonders has been saved by nearly miraculous forces, and the Silent Army is risen, ready to defend the Fellein Empire and Empress Nachia at any cost. The power that was hidden in the Mounds is on the move, seeking a final confrontation with the very entities that kept it locked away since the Cataclysm. Andover Lashk has finally come to accept his destiny and prepares to journey back to Fellein.

The Empire of Fellein is in mourning. The Emperor is dead, and the armies of the empire have grown soft. Merros Dulver, their newly-appointed - and somewhat reluctant - commander, has been tasked with preparing them to fight the most savage enemy the world has yet seen. Meanwhile, a perpetual storm ravages the Blasted Lands, and a new threat is about to arise - the Broken are coming, and with them only Death.

The Seven Forges are a range of impassable mountains, far to the north of the settled lands of Fellein. From time to time explorers venture up beyond the Blasted Lands in search of a way over them and the promise of legendary riches, but without success. Now Captain Merros Dulver has found a path, and encountered, at last, the half-forgotten people who dwell there. And it would appear they were expecting him.