5/22/2023 0 Comments Tchaikovsky elder race![]() The planet itself is a blend of a medieval society, but one that evolved out of a colony ship that seeded the planet centuries past. The threat facing Nyr and Lynesse is strange and grotesque. ![]() ![]() For those just looking for a sci-fi adventure, they won’t be disappointed. Because surely there are no such things as demons, right?ĮLDER RACE is an absolute triumph that balances in-depth characters, exploration of culture and language, and some incredibly creepy creatures, all in under 200 pages. So when Lynesse calls upon the promise he made to her ancestor, Nyrgoth decides to bend the rules juuust a little bit to see what this demon nonsense is about. But alone and cut off from home, Nyrgoth’s adherence to the rules of non-interference are wavering. Nyrgoth’s mission is to observe Lynesse’s culture, to sleep in cryo for decades, and to wake to see how things have changed. He’s simply the last remaining anthropologist manning an outpost left by an advanced civilization. But what Lynesse doesn’t know is that Nyrgoth isn’t a creature of magic. The sorcerer Nyrgoth has long remained a recluse in his tower, but he promised to aid the royal family should they ever need him. When a demon threatens her homeland, Lynesse Fourth Daughter, princess, secretly sets out to invoke an ancient compact, despite her family’s instance the demon is the imaginings of the peasantry. ![]()
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