Readers of Mahout Derwain have met Benefice and her husband Borfano, central to this story. Lion-born Sheril is a repeat character, as well as Kings Rhugo and Shem, plus Ludwig and his wicked wife. In coming pages I'll tell you all you need to know about these last four, who are no longer as they were.
Shillaway is no typical city. Planet Paeon isn't yet smoothed by the onset of modernity. Sameness is not expected, but in religion and language, cities far apart share ancient bonds. Earthlife was seeded only nine thousand years ago (three thousand Earth years), so from common roots and training, quirks and crotchets have had half as long to develop, as we on Earth endured to graduate from ancient Anatolian cattle-breeders into modern Scots and Ethiopians.
The religion of the Double Gods is mouthed across known and unknown regions, but zeal varies. Shillaway is muscularly pious. Yett Nethers much less so. In times past the language of the seedships was taught to the animal-born humans of Paeon, not entirely replacing their parleys.
Genre: Science Fiction
Shillaway is no typical city. Planet Paeon isn't yet smoothed by the onset of modernity. Sameness is not expected, but in religion and language, cities far apart share ancient bonds. Earthlife was seeded only nine thousand years ago (three thousand Earth years), so from common roots and training, quirks and crotchets have had half as long to develop, as we on Earth endured to graduate from ancient Anatolian cattle-breeders into modern Scots and Ethiopians.
The religion of the Double Gods is mouthed across known and unknown regions, but zeal varies. Shillaway is muscularly pious. Yett Nethers much less so. In times past the language of the seedships was taught to the animal-born humans of Paeon, not entirely replacing their parleys.
Genre: Science Fiction
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