Borders were still being drawn, after all, but Beaumarais might well be part of the lands ceded to Cardinal before the year was out. Neither recognized that they were being visited by the Warden and the White Knight until they were told, and quickly acceded to silence when it was asked of them. The temple built by the cottages made it plain that the House of Light was keeping on them, but both the brother there and the magistrate in nearby Beaumarais knew and approved of the school. Half a dozen wizard families and twice that in simple students had made their home in the Knightsgrave, a small hidden school of wizardry in the mountains. That was not unusual, in the Red Flower Vales – which in these parts the native Procerans called the Vermillion Valleys – but the mage tower surrounded by a few cottages was. It was a pretty sight, tall grass split by a burbling mountain spring whose banks grew thick with red flowers. The valley, they told Catherine, was called the Knightsgrave. In the end, we are told, they will all have mattered.” – Last page of the Book of All Things That is our gift, and so the sum of the choices we have made will echo beyond the bounds of time. Yet it shall not be the end of everything, for though all came of the emptiness of Void to create is to make something from nothing. With the Last Dusk will come the passing of Creation, discording turning to concord as the wager of Fate is resolved. “At the end, there will be more than the Gods. While I’m aware this is frustratingly vague, I’m sure it’ll end up being a pleasant surprise. The 26th of August will be when it starts again and I’ll be putting my Patreon in vacation mode until then.Īs for the last bit, while I can’t get into details at the moment there’s been things in the works so don’t be surprised if there’s another announcement made here in the coming months. I’ll be taking a longer break than usual before chapters start, however – more precisely, six months. Most of you should be aware that my next project, Pale Lights, already has the first two chapters up as a teaser. I said as much yesterday in the comments, but it’s been a hell of a ride and I’m you got to take it with me. I guess Catherine’s not the only one who got sentimental as she got older.Īs for all of you whose lives were touched by the Guide, no matter how small the way, well I can only say I’m glad. I’ve been getting an outpouring of messages from people who’ve been reading the series and tell me of when they began and how the work came into their lives, which I’ll admit has brought a tear to my eye on occasion. I owe that to all of you, and I can only give genuine thanks for it. It’s more than a little humbling that over the years I got to move from that to full-time writing and make a living out of my work. I still remember starting with one chapter a week on Book I, back when I started this whole project to motivate myself to write with public deadlines. I’ve spent nearly seven years of my life on the Guide to some extent or another – and began doodling with the concepts even before that – so it feels like the end of an era. The series is over and the shock of that is only beginning to hit me. They’re in the extra chapters tab, it starts with Beatification I. Ending Announcementsįirst off, the last book’s over and so all the Patreon-exclusive extra chapters are now up. The author can be contacted at no circumstances will Epub, PDF files, audiobooks or translation of the Guide be allowed. First update of every month will be accompanied by an Extra Chapter. Updates every Tuesday and Friday as of the latest Patreon goal. Is there such a thing as doing bad things for good reasons, or is she just rationalizing her desire for control? Good and Evil are tricky concepts, and the more power you get the blurrier the lines between them become. Her name is Catherine Foundling, and she has a plan.Ī Practical Guide to Evil is a YA fantasy novel about a young girl named Catherine Foundling making her way through the world – though, in a departure from the norm, not on the side of the heroes. Yet none of this matters, for in the heart of the conquered lands the most dangerous man alive sat across an orphan girl and offered her a knife. The greatest danger lies to the west, where the First Prince of Procer has finally claimed her throne: her people sundered, she wonders if a crusade might not be the way to secure her reign. In the north the Forever King eyes the ever-expanding borders of the Empire and ponders war. The nobles of the Wasteland, denied the power they crave, weave their plots behind pleasant smiles. For twenty years the Dread Empress has ruled over the lands that were once the Kingdom of Callow, but behind the scenes of this dawning golden age threats to the crown are rising.
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