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The Briar King by Greg Keyes6/23/2023 ![]() Both like and unlike the griffin of myth, this creature's mere presence poisons streams with a deadly contamination that lingers and can be passed on by touch. In the kingdom of Crotheny, something is very wrong in the royal forest-signalled by the forest warden's sighting of a "greffyn". ![]() ![]() It's a time of late-medieval kingdoms, with credible political tension and devious diplomacy. Next, a much later historian's note records that "In the year 2,223 E, the age of Everon came to an abrupt and terrible end." This is the year in which the main narrative begins. Besides being highly readable, the novel offers an intriguingly tangled plot and back-story that rises well above the black-and-white simplicities of commercial fantasy.Ī prelude of magical battle and hard-won victory over hated slave masters strikes a note of doom as it's suggested that the coming Golden Age is already poisoned by misuse of magic at its founding. ![]() The Briar King opens Greg Keyes' four-volume fantasy sequence "Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone". ![]()
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