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WIP INTRO // THE CRIMSON MOON

book one of the arnora duology by kit fenmore

Info: high fantasy + epic adventure, 3rd limited POV present tense, interludes in 1st referral POV present tense, planned 120k but who knows

Themes:  found family + trauma and learning how to heal from it or at least live in spite of it + morality and moral ambiguity + power and corruption + nuanced villains + redemption + time magic and unintended consequences of the magic system + playing with the fabric of reality because that always ends well

Aesthetic: hemlock crushed under leather boots + an alchemist’s shop lit by candlelight + letters sealed with poison-laced wax + the rustle of a raven’s wings at twilight + gold-encrusted daggers on wooden bar-tops + the rush of whitewater in a thunderstorm + crying in the rain, the only other sounds the lonely hoots of an owl and the rustle of raindrops on ferns + the smell of lavender fields in autumn

Summary: After Vanna Landry is imprisoned for attempting a spell which has been outlawed for centuries, they must work with an enigmatic assassin to escape before both of them are sentenced to death. While escaping, they uncover diagrams for an extremely risky and highly illegal ritual, penned by the ruler of Aemorn herself. A ritual which, according to the exiled time magister who shows up a bit too conveniently, would distort the Pillars of Time themselves. A ritual which would seemingly benefit no one. With questions piling up and time running out, Vanna must team up with the ex-time magister she barely trusts, the assassin who she should probably trust a little less, a thief who got kicked out of his thieves' guild, and a mercenary who has never killed to stop the ritual before all of reality ceases to exist.

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Transcript:

Xalia strode down the marble halls, the soft leather of her shoes meeting each tile with a cacophony of echoes. This was not the first, second, hundredth time that she had walked these passageways, and yet the chill she felt when contained within their depths never seemed to subside. The looming corridors and billowing curtains always seemed to hide sinister whispers that breathed down her neck and pricked at the tips of her ears. Perhaps it was the High Council, with their unnerving masks and owlish eyes, seeming to know and perceive all — or perhaps it was the knowledge that every time she stalked back towards the exit, she would carry the weight of another’s life on her shoulders, a life that she had to take.