Robert Asprin - TW 08 - Soul of the City

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Thieves World Book #08

Soul of the City

Edited by Robert Lynn Asprin

CONTENTS

Dramatis Personae Lynn Abbey

Power Play Janet Morris

Dagger in the Mind C.J. Cherryh

Children of All Ages Lynn Abbey

Death in the Meadow C.J. Cherryh

The Small Powers that Endure Lynn Abbey

Pillar of Fire Janet Morris

Dramatis Personae

The Townspeople

AHDIOVIZUN; AHDIOMER viz; AHDIO, Proprietor of Sty's Place, a legendary

dive

within the Maze.

LALO THE LIMNER, Street artist gifted with magic he does not fully understand.

GILLA, His indomitable wife.

ALFI, Their youngest son.

LATILLA, Their daughter.

OANNER, Their middle son, slain during the False Plague riots of the

winter.

VANDA, Their daughter, employed as maid-servant to the Beysib at the palace.

WEDEMIR, Their son and eldest child.

DUBRO, Bazaar blacksmith and husband to Illyra.

ILLYRA, Half-blood S'danzo seeress with True Sight. Hounded by PFLS in the

False

Plague.

ARTON, Their son, marked by the gods and magic as part of an

emerging

divinity known as the Stormchildren. Sent to the Bandaran Isles for his

safety

and education.

ULLIS, Their daughter, slain in the False Plague riots.

HAKIEM, Storyteller and confidant extraordinaire.

JUBAL, Prematurely aged former gladiator. Once he openly ran Sanctuary's

most

visible criminal organization, the Hawkmasks. Now he works behind the scenes.

SALIMAN, His aide and only friend.

MAMA BECHO, Owner of a particularly disreputable tavern in Downwind.

MASHA ZIL-INEEL, Midwife whose involvement with the destruction of the

Purple

Mage enabled her to move from the Maze to respectability uptown.

MORIA, One-time Hawkmask and servant to Ischade. She was physically

transformed

into a Rankan noblewoman by Haught.

MYRTIS, Madam of the Aphrodesia House.

SHAFRALAIN, Sanctuary nobleman who can trace his lineage and his money back

the days of llsig's glory.

ESARIA, His daughter.

EXPIMILIA, His wife.

CUSHARLAIN, His cousin. A customs inspector and investigator.

SNAPPER JO, A fiend who survived the destruction of magic in Sanctuary.

STILCHO, Once one of Ischade's resurrected minions, he was "cured" of death

when

magic was purged from Sanctuary.

ZIP, Bitter young terrorist. Leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation

Sanctuary (PFLS).

The Magicians

HAUGHT, One-time apprentice of Ischade who betrayed her and is now trapped in

warded house with Roxane.

ISCHADE, Necromancer and thief. Her curse is passed to her lovers who die

from

it.

ROXANE; DEATH'S QUEEN, Nisibisi witch. Nearly destroyed when Stormbringer

purged

magic from Sanctuary, she is trapped inside a warded house and a dead

man's

body.

Others

THERON, New military Emperor. An usurper placed on the throne with the

aid

ofTempus and his allies. He has commanded that Sanctuary's walls must be

rebuilt

by the next New Year Festival.

The Rankans living in Sanctuary

CHENAYA; DAUGHTER OF THE SUN, Daughter of LOW an Vigeles, a beautiful

and

powerful young woman who is fated never to lose a fight. DAYRNE, Her

companion

and trainer.

LEYN, OUUEN, DISMAS AND GESTUS, Her friends and fellow gladiators.

GYSKOURAS, One of the Stormchildren, currently in the Bandar an Isles

for

education.

PRINCE KADAKITHIS, Charismatic but somewhat naive half-brother of the

recently

assassinated Emperor, Abakithis.

DAPHNE, His estranged wife, living with Chenaya's gladiators at Land's

End.

KAMA; JES, Tempus' daughter. 3rd Commando assassin. Sometime lover of both

Zip

and Molin Torchholder.

LOWAN VIGELES, Half-brother of Molin Torchholder, father of Chenaya, a

wealthy

aristocrat self-exiled to Sanctuary. Owner of the Land's End Estate.

MOLIN TORCHHOLDER; TORCH, Archpriest and architect of Vashanka; Guardian of

the

Stormchildren.

ROSANDA, His estranged wife, living at Land's End.

RANKAN 3RD COMMANDO, Mercenary company founded by Tempus Thales and noted

for

its brutal efficiency.

SYNC, Commander of the 3rd.

RASHAN; THE EYE OF THE SAVANKALA, Priest and Judge of Sanvankala.

Highest

ranking Rankan in Sanctuary prior to the arrival of the Prince, now allied

with

Chenaya's disaffected Rankans at Land's End.

STEPSONS; SACRED BANDERS, Members of a mercenary unit founded by Abarsis

who

willed their allegiance to Tempus Thales after his own death. CRITIAS;

CRIT,

Leftside leader paired with Straton. Second in command after Tempus.

RANDAL; WITCHY-EARS, The only mage ever trusted by Tempus or admitted into

the

Sacred Band.

STRATON; STRAT; ACE, Rightside partner of Critias. Injured by the PFLS at

the

start of the False Plague riots.

TASFALEN LANCOTHIS, Jaded nobleman, slain by Ischade's curse, then

resurrected

by Haught. His body has become Roxane's prison.

TEMPOS THALES; THE RIDDLER, Nearly immortal mercenary, a partner of

Vashanka

before that god's demise; commander of the Stepsons; cursed with a

fatal

inability to give or receive love.

WALEGRIN, Rankan army officer assigned to the Sanctuary garrison where

his

father had been slain by the S'danzo many years before.

The Gods

DYAREELA, A goddess whose worship in Sanctuary predates the Ilsigi presence

and

which has been outlawed many times since then.

HARRAN, Physician and priest to Siveni Gray-Eyes, now part of her four-

fold

divinity.

MRIGA, Mindless and crippled woman elevated to four-fold divinity with

Siveni

Gray-Eyes.

SABELLIA, Mother goddess for the Rankan Empire.

SAVANKALA, Father god for the Rankan Empire.

SIVENI GRAY-EYES, Ilsigi goddess of wisdom, medicine and defense,

now

transformed into a four-fold diety.

SHIPRI, Mother goddess of the old Ilsigi kingdom.

STORMBRINGER, Primal stormgodlwargod. The pattern for all other such gods, he

not, himself, the object of organized worship.

JIHAN, Froth Daughter. His parthenogenic offspring, betrothed to the

Stepson's

mage, Randal.

The Beysib

SHUPANSEA; SHU-SEA, Head of the Beysib exiles in Sanctuary; mortal avatar of

the

Beysib mother goddess.

POWER PLAY

Janet Morris

Tempus, a mercenary general in the service of Ranke's new emperor, was knee-

deep

in the bloody purges marking the first winter of Theron's accession to

the

Rankan throne when the sky above the walled city began to weep black tears.

By the time dawn should have broken, ashen clouds massed to the very vault

heaven so that not even the Sun God's sharpest rays could pierce the

arrayed

armies of the night. The city of Ranke, once the brightest jewel of the

Rankan

empire, shuddered in the dark, her ochre walls stained dusky from the

storm's

black and ugly might.

Thunder growled; winds yowled. Black hail pelted Theron's palace,

shattering

windows and pounding doors. On temple streets and cultured byways it

bounced,

sharp as diamonds and large as heads, bringing impious priests to their

knees

and cheap nobles to charity in slick streets covered with greasy slush

freezing

to ice as black, some said, as their emperor Theron's heart.

For all knew that Theron had come to power in a coup instigated by the armies-

was a creature of blood, a wild beast of the battlefield. And the proof of

this

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ThievesWorldBook#08SouloftheCityEditedbyRobertLynnAsprinCONTENTSDramatisPersonaeLynnAbbeyPowerPlayJanetMorrisDaggerintheMindC.J.CherryhChildrenofAllAgesLynnAbbeyDeathintheMeadowC.J.CherryhTheSmallPowersthatEndureLynnAbbeyPillarofFireJanetMorrisDramatisPersonaeTheTownspeopleAHDIOVIZUN;AHDIOMERviz;AHD...

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