Hunting Gods, page 49
part #2 of Fate and the Wheel Series
The End
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By Ru Pringle
October Song
Sanctuary (coming soon)
FATE AND THE WHEEL SERIES
A Time of Ashes
Hunting Gods
The Ice Queen’s Song (coming soon)
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Many thanks to Seylan Baxter, to my agent John Jarrold, to Ralph and Sophie Houston for the time and work you so generously put into proof-reading, to Ewan Pringle for beta reading and feedback, and to the other relatives and friends who helped in ways large and small with refining the book and the series from its original idea.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ru Pringle began his writing career at the age of 18, paying university bills by writing features for magazines. After a stint as an environmental scientist, he became a full-time writer, gradually veering towards travel journalism. He has also worked as a tree- and vineyard-planter, footpath builder, roofer, joiner, plumber, yacht crewperson, youth hostel warden, mountain and trail guide, oil-painting salesman, cook, sound engineer, and didgeridoo and mandolin tutor.
After several years as a touring musician, he now lives in the South West Highlands of Scotland.
Read more at Ru Pringle’s site.
PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS
Torola
Gald Moela – Senior Cognast of the Brotherhood of the First Mind, Murrin’s mentor
Tullis – Murrin’s adoptive uncle
Murrin Kentle – Orphan, Truthkeep of the Brotherhood of the First Mind in the island of Lòsh Shargor
Tys and Hejj Ashorn
Coll Shorain – bandit and blacksmith
Homollon – last surviving kwellaraen, Coll’s friend and saviour in A Time of Ashes
Elleen – queen of Tys
Efué – chief scientist of Hejj Ashorn, Queen Elleen’s advisor and lover
Tankentaer – disgraced Tysian military general
Til Meshin (Tilmesh) – Tysian military lieutenant, friend of Tankentaer
Mashino – Chief Librarian at Hejj Ashorn, Grand Master of martial arts
Orlis – Arliand prince, adviser to Queen Elleen
Tofonis – Queen Elleen’s personal guard and assistant
Akhadis – legal advisor to the Tysian court
Damu – princess of the Kingdom of Hedal
Teleís
Sheehan hahe Seeheeli – Shi’iin countess
Seeli alolee Hiikaa – Shi’iin countess, Sheehan’s older sister
Manshur Uilleir Dagbols – captive scholar from Kingdom of Orlin
Véinne Oliént – right hand of god, emperor (voseínte) of the Teleísian Empire
Desné Droolias – Veinne Oliént’s personal bodyguard
Déliel – captured princess, member of Véinne Oliént’s harem
Dylisé – the voseínte’s Chief Inquisitor
Goént – member of Véinne Oliént’s harem
Dareíl – Veinne Oliént’s strawman voseínte
Abjut Nils – general of Teleísian military forces
Ennién – general of Teleísian military forces, second in rank only to Abjut Nils
Trall – lieutenant of palace guard
Feíl – lieutenant of palace guard
Fat Chance
Jarosh – captain
Chet Karspin – apprentice truthkeep, chemistic, ship’s scholar
Wel – first mate
Calin – bosun
Fraim – cook
Belf – deckhand, crew’s spokesperson
Frindar – sailmaker and senior joiner
Daryan – unofficial medical officer
Mistang – deckhand
Paleg – deckhand
Min – lookout
Marlesh – deckhand
Pell – deckhand
Lumpy – deckhand
Tarang – deckhand
Mai – fish handler
Prōla – fish handler
The Jurkekrarj
Karil – captain
Kudze – helmsman
Shan – deckhand
Ladshin – kurkerji handler and deckhand
Kyarat – kurkerji handler and deckhand
Uurt
Myckiel – ex Teleísian assassin, missionary to Uurt
King ‘Bobo’ Bobotan – king of Uurt
Mister Diggs – Uurtian warrior
Fami – Uurtian warrior
Reen – Uurtian warrior
Jon-jon – Uurtian warrior
Arriel and the Forest of Acara Ahuaga
Keyenti – forest orphan, guide to Tysian expedition
Ahiel – daughter of Halih
Halih – Arriel chieftain, Ahiel’s father
Eyash – Halih’s cousin and chief lieutenant, one of Ahiel’s uncles
CONTENTS
PART ONE / THE GOLDEN TOWER
CHAPTER 1 / Awakening
CHAPTER 2 / Bedside Visitors
CHAPTER 3 / Riddles in the Veins
CHAPTER 4 / The Mapmaker
CHAPTER 5 / The Crystal Mountain
CHAPTER 6 / Angel
CHAPTER 7 / Chamber of Lost Gods
CHAPTER 8 / Cuts
CHAPTER 9 / Sacrifice
PART TWO / THE ETERNAL RIVER
CHAPTER 10 / Water Siren
CHAPTER 11 / A Lake of Stars
CHAPTER 12 / A Meeting of the Senate
CHAPTER 13 / The Bargain
CHAPTER 14 / City of Bones
CHAPTER 15 / Glass
CHAPTER 16 / Up the Dark River
CHAPTER 17 / Self-Interest
CHAPTER 18 / An Important Date
CHAPTER 19 / Bad Taste
CHAPTER 20 / Long Live the Voseínte
CHAPTER 21 / A Kind of Worm
CHAPTER 22 / Unease
CHAPTER 23 / Watchers in the Trees
PART THREE / THE PATH OF THE GODS
CHAPTER 24 / Uprising
CHAPTER 25 / Camouflage
CHAPTER 26 / And Inhale
CHAPTER 27 / The Key
CHAPTER 28 / Smile
CHAPTER 29 / Trapped
CHAPTER 30 / Self-Pity Will Get You Nowhere
CHAPTER 31 / Cold Light of Day
CHAPTER 32 / Assassin
CHAPTER 33 / Into White
CHAPTER 34 / Something is Growing in It
CHAPTER 35 / Floating
CHAPTER 36 / The Storming of the Castle of the Four Winds
CHAPTER 37 / A Force to Be Reckoned With
CHAPTER 38 / Quirk of Logic
CHAPTER 39 / Hard Decisions
CHAPTER 40 / Heavy Weather
CHAPTER 41 / Always a Bigger Fish
CHAPTER 42 / Leap of Faith
CHAPTER 43 / Finity
CHAPTER 44 / Farewell to a Friend
EPILOGUE
PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS
Ru Pringle, Hunting Gods
