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Chronicles of the Kencyrath: God Stalk / Dark of the Moon
Chronicles of the Kencyrath God Stalk / Dark of the Moon Author:P. C. Hodgell We meet Jame (Jamethiel Preists-Bane) as she is blindly attempting to escape a pack of haunts (carnivorous dead who have not been laid to rest). We learn later that this is almost the first recollection that Jame has of herself. She stumbles into the deserted streets of Tai-Tastigon on the Night of the Dead Gods. Gods are not a myth in Tai-Tasti... more »gon but as real as the inhabitants but will fade and die as their popularity wanes. She is taken in by an innkeeper and so begins a bizarre journey of self discovery in the most bizarre universe to have been imagined.
We learn that Jame is a Highborn, one of the three people who make up the Kencyrath and who have been fighting a losing battle against Perimal Darkling, who is neither man not beast, for thousands of years from world to world. She cannot lie, she holds her honour above her own life, can bind people and animals to her service for life but finds the practice abhorrent, can dance the souls out of men, oh and can extend razor sharp claws when in extreme danger. She learns to be an exotic dancer and becomes a thief, a well-respected profession in Tai-Tastigon, kills a god, resurrects another and finds she can speak words of unspeakable power and destruction.« less