ISBN: 9798191354071 - the weight compass: a novel of debts and deep magic (6 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - In Hallowmere, magic runs on debt. Every working costs something - paid in years, in memory, in bonds - and the one law older than any Warden's oath is simple: you can never undo your own mistake.Wren Ashcombe has spent nineteen years believing her hands don't matter. She's a coldsmith, working metal the Law can't touch, standing forever in the shadow of her gifted older sister, Marren - until the morning she finds Marren on the floor of the Warden-house, turning slowly to glass.Marren broke the one Law that can't be broken. No living Warden can save her. But there's an old story about a relic at the edge of the world - the Last Ember - said to undo what should be unforgivable, if the right hand ever dares to reach for it.Wren's hands have never been worth anything to the Law her whole life.That might be exactly why they're the only ones that can.With a disgraced Warden's apprentice and a hardened salvager as her only allies, Wren crosses a wasteland of walking debts and hunted grief to reach a Forge that will ask her for a price no caster has ever been willing to pay - and force her to decide whether the girl she's always believed herself to be was ever the whole truth at all.The Weight Compass is a character-driven quest fantasy about the cost of rescue, the quiet violence of being underestimated, and what it actually means to become someone new. For readers of Naomi Novik and T. Kingfisher.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Her sister has three weeks. The Laws say no one can save her. Wren is leaving today anyway.When working-Warden Marren Ashcombe collapses with a shattered working that turns her skin to glass, everyone in Hallowmere agrees nothing can be done. The Closed Circle is one of the Three Laws: the one who cast a working cannot undo it, and the debt doesn't disappear just because a legendary relic exists somewhere at the world's edge.Wren has a different theory.She is a coldsmith, not a Warden. Her hands owe the working nothing. If the Last Ember is real, and if it can reach past the Laws the way the stories say it can, then her uselessness to the Order may be exactly the qualification the relic requires. It is not much of a plan. It is the only plan there is. She commits to it before she leaves the room.The road to the First Forge is long, and Wren is not the only one who wants what waits there.The Cindergale Order has riders on the coast road and Warden Harlan driving them. He has working-trained hounds, a warrant, and no interest in clemency for the sister of a Law-breaker.Draeus Kell is a profiteer who wants the weight-compass and the Ember both, and he is not gentle about asking.The Grey lies between the coast and the Forge: dead blighted ground, storm-debt, and Remnants that don't respond to Warden workings, which Wren doesn't have anyway.The Laws themselves are the deepest wall of all. Even if the Ember is real, it can't cancel what Equivalence demands. It can only change who pays.Through it all, Wren is learning something the Warden-houses never taught her: that the thing that looks like a lack can be the qualification, that being the lesser inheritance is not the same as being less, and that she has been brave for three weeks without anyone there to be brave first.The Last Ember will give her a way to save her sister. But the Laws still need paying, and what they ask will force a choice that changes what Hallowmere thinks a coldsmith's hands are for, and what Wren Ashcombe is willing to become.Perfect for readers of: Epic fantasy with intricate, rule-bound magic systemsQuest-driven stories with emotional stakes at the centreCharacter arcs built around identity, inheritance, and self-worthSecondary world fantasy with richly developed loreThe Last Ember can do what no Warden can. None of the legends mention its price. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. In Hallowmere, magic runs on debt. Every working costs something - paid in years, in memory, in bonds - and the one law older than any Warden's oath is simple: you can never undo your own mistake.Wren Ashcombe has spent nineteen years believing her hands don't matter. She's a coldsmith, working metal the Law can't touch, standing forever in the shadow of her gifted older sister, Marren - until the morning she finds Marren on the floor of the Warden-house, turning slowly to glass.Marren broke the one Law that can't be broken. No living Warden can save her. But there's an old story about a relic at the edge of the world - the Last Ember - said to undo what should be unforgivable, if the right hand ever dares to reach for it.Wren's hands have never been worth anything to the Law her whole life.That might be exactly why they're the only ones that can.With a disgraced Warden's apprentice and a hardened salvager as her only allies, Wren crosses a wasteland of walking debts and hunted grief to reach a Forge that will ask her for a price no caster has ever been willing to pay - and force her to decide whether the girl she's always believed herself to be was ever the whole truth at all.The Weight Compass is a character-driven quest fantasy about the cost of rescue, the quiet violence of being underestimated, and what it actually means to become someone new. For readers of Naomi Novik and T. Kingfisher. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…