Shared World – serie

A home to reavers and rakes, sorcerers and slayers, undead kings and undying things ... expanding a page at a time in the stories added by the authors. In the Once Lands, a lineage of sorcerous wayfinders work to keep godlike monstrosities locked behind the crumbling walls of cursed cities by allowing the vengeful ghosts of forest gods to inhabit their living flesh. In the wild wastes, tribes of cannibal huntresses fight to balance the old ways and new in a struggle to keep their culture alive by trading in death. In the sprawling city of Khyber, ambitions dance on sword edges while clans of thieves and reavers clutch at power. Welcome to Shared World ... whose authors also invite YOU to write stories using their ideas. The first in a series of standalone books, with more books coming fast!

In the Shared World, songs tell of a hated warrior of ancient times, a cannibal woman who sought to awaken great evil and destroy all life.But what is her side of the story?Award-winning author Jonathan Ball establishes and explores much of the foundational lore of the Shared World, offering the full story of one of its most notable and notorious warriors, Draxas.Outcast from her cannibal tribe, wandering alone into forbidden lands, Draxas seeks to become the priestess of a strange, dark god ... or perhaps to steal its power for herself. A complicated anti-hero, who seeks to end the world but also mourns the mother that she killed, Draxas hunts down a Lovecraftian god in a bid to become immortal herself filled with illustrations by GMB Chomichuk, this new entry in the Shared World series expands the world to bursting with Ball's expansive, engaging style