![]() Strickland’s worldbuilding is grand ancient Greece inspires the city’s culture, and the mechanics of blood magic parallel the diametrically opposed death magic in interesting ways. ![]() Rovan is a tenacious spitfire who fights for freedom and vengeance by any means necessary. Between enduring one injury after another, she seeks to finish her father’s work by breaking her bonds and exposing the king’s unsavory secrets. Rovan is valuable as a potential source of magic, so she’s forced to associate with the royal family, soon to an intolerable degree. Taken into custody for being unregistered, Rovan unwillingly suffers a ceremony that is deemed mandatory for all bloodmages-attachment to a shade, who acts more like a personal jailer than guardian. Twelve years later, she accidentally reveals her inherited magical power by saving her friend’s life in the middle of the town center. ![]() Rovan lost her father, a user of blood magic, when she was 7, on the day that the king’s bloodmages stormed her house. ![]()
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