![]() ![]() They can use magic to postpone the poison’s effects indefinitely. ![]() He will die of screaming agony from the poison, unless he agrees to teach the ladies of Mandrigyn to fight. So Sheera and several other women, including a wizard named Yirth, kidnap him, poison him, and give him an ultimatum. A beautiful, charismatic, and obsessed woman of Mandrigyn, Sheera Galernas, tries to hire Sun Wolf’s mercenaries to free the city from the wizard-king. They’ve also been conspiring to win their freedom from Altiokis. When Altiokis conquered the city, he took all the men away to work in his mines, so the ladies have begun to work husbands’ jobs and to run the city. ![]() Mandrigyn is a city in which women never had political or economic power and have always gone veiled. Sun Wolf, mindful of his father’s advice about magic, will not work for or against him. ![]() Approximately a century ago, an apparently-immortal wizard named Altiokis began carving out a new empire for himself, not to mention hunting down and slaughtering every other wizard he can find. Sun Wolf, the brutal, hard-bitten captain of a highly successful band of mercenaries, has no shortage of work. The Ladies of Mandrigyn takes place in an imaginary world where a great empire has collapsed, leaving a politically unstable power vacuum. In the course of this novel, he will do all three. Sun Wolf’s father taught him three things: Don’t mess with magic, don’t argue with drunks or fanatics, and don’t fall in love. ![]()
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