![]() ![]() Silver girdled it, worn plain and tarnished, quickly warm to Maleonarial's fingertips. The body was beechwood, smooth and bronzed with age, of perfect balance. He has yet to learn She is all that protects Tananen from what waits outside. To end this terrible toll, the greatest mage in Tananen vows to find and destroy Her. ![]() But her magic demands to be used the Deathless Goddess will take her fee, and mages will die. Each successful intention ages a mage until they dare no more. If an intention is flawed, what the mage creates is a gossamer: a magical creature as wild and free as it is costly for the mage.įor Her Gift comes at a steep price. Mage scribes learn to write Her words as intentions: spells to make beasts or plants, designed to any purpose. The words are Her Gift, and they summon magic. Only in this small, forbidden realm are there those haunted by words of no language known to woman or man. ![]() Only in Tananen do people worship a single deity: the Deathless Goddess. A Crash Course in the History of Black Science Fiction.200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001. ![]()
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