The tasks involve everything from performing funerals to speaking with the dead (or, more accurately, empathising with them) to murderer hunting with occasional undead banishment in between. Witness of the Dead is not an occupation, it is more of a religious calling that necessitates certain abilities. A cat-feeding, ghoul banishing kind of hero. We would like to befriend Othala Celehar. “A terrible result does not always have a terrible cause.” Katherine Addison has created a fantastic world for these books – wide and deep and true.Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. No matter his own background with the imperial house, Celehar will stand with the commoners, and possibly find a light in the darkness. Now Celehar’s skills lead him out of the quiet and into a morass of treachery, murder, and injustice. It is his duty use that ability to resolve disputes, to ascertain the intent of the dead, to find the killers of the murdered. As a Witness for the Dead, he can, sometimes, speak to the recently dead: see the last thing they saw, know the last thought they had, experience the last thing they felt. He lives modestly, but his decency and fundamental honestly will not permit him to live quietly. He has not escaped from politics, but his position gives him the ability to serve the common people of the city, which is his preference. Now Celehar lives in the city of Amalo, far from the Court though not exactly in exile. The favor of the Emperor is a dangerous coin.
He lost his place as a retainer of his cousin the former Empress, and made far too many enemies among the many factions vying for power in the new Court. Thara Celehar found the truth, though it did him no good to discover it.
When the young half-goblin emperor Maia sought to learn who had set the bombs that killed his father and half-brothers, he turned to an obscure resident of his father’s Court, a Prelate of Ulis and a Witness for the Dead.
Katherine Addison returns to the glittering world she created for her beloved novel, The Goblin Emperor, in this stand-alone sequel.
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