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A Magic of Nightfall: A Novel of the Nessantico Cycle
A Magic of Nightfall A Novel of the Nessantico Cycle Author:S. L. Farrell Nessantico, a city as rich with place and presence, with culture and intrigue -- both political and religious -- as Europe's most wondrous Renaissance cities. Nessantico is the capital of a vast empire, and the main seat of the Concenzia Faith. It is here that the mighty gather to play their games of power. — As A MAGIC OF NIGHTFALL opens twenty-... more »five years have passed singe the momentous events that occurred in A MAGIC OF TWILIGHT. A boy king -- Audric, grandson of the legendary Kraljica Marguerite ca'Ludovici -- rules Nessantico under the tutelage of Sergei ca'Rudka, but the boy is ill and there are those who are waiting impatiently for the Sun Throne to become vacant again. The continent-spanning empire of the Holdings has broken in half, with Firenzcia and neighboring coutries to the east creating a rival alliance. The Concenzia Faith has also been sundered, with Archigos Ana ca'Seranta ruling in Nessantico while another in Brezno claims the same title.
In Firenzcia, Allesandra ca'Vorl plots against the Holdings, and for Semini ca'Cellibrecca, the Archigo of Brezno, the acceptance of the Numetodo heretics in the Holdings makes him quake with fury. In the far west, ther is war with the Tehuantin, the people of the Hellins. In Cessantico herself, in the warrens of Oldtown, agents of the Tehuantin are watching... And quickly, with a roar of flame and unexpected death, great and terrible events are set in motion, and Nessantico must face a threat unlike any other in its long, illustrious history: a threat that will take it to the knife-edge of destruction.« less