Prince Gerhard is busy trying to raise his son to embrace German culture in a world that wont stop changing. She is an adept of the Order, with the lifelong aim of becoming the first female of the order's highest rank, a hexmaster, even as she doubts the Order's virtue and true purpose The setting of Carinthia is initially rich and full of interesting concepts - Vanishing unicorns, Giants marauding passing merchant caravans, wagons that travel on magical wheels with no need for horse or driver. The book is set in Carinthia, a country isolated and wealthy from the strength of it's magical Order of the White Robe, who remove any of the Kingdom's problems with unparreleled magical aptitude. The world is creative and q Arcanum doesn't start out as a painful read, but it becomes one.
So what does a magic kingdom do when it runs out of magic?Īrcanum doesn't start out as a painful read, but it becomes one. Magic is Carinthia’s wealth, its protection and its way of life. Rich through trade and centuries of peace, it owes its success to being the home of the Order of the White Robe, whose legendary hexmasters can destroy whole armies by turning the field of battle into a glittering lake of lava.
Rich through trade and centuries of peace, it A thousand years after Alaric the Goth crossed the Alps with his rough alliance of northern tribes and wild, spell-wielding shamans to crush the Roman empire, Europe has become an almost civilised place.ĭespite the wars that wash across the continent, the little mountain kingdom of Carinthia remains untroubled and untouchable.
Despite the wars that wash across the continent, the little mountain kingdom of Carinthia remains untroubled and untouchable. A thousand years after Alaric the Goth crossed the Alps with his rough alliance of northern tribes and wild, spell-wielding shamans to crush the Roman empire, Europe has become an almost civilised place.
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