Gauthier and Osarias have reached Jebel Tarr, the city of the Flagellants, where the Breath of the Qa’dj now resides. They want to extinguish it forever, but can such a demon ever be destroyed? Meanwhile, the machinations of Guy of Lusignan, his thirst for power and blood, have brought the Cross and the Crescent to the brink of renewed war, one that only Syria of Arcos, torn between her feelings for the Sultan and Gauthier, can still prevent – maybe ...

THE TRUTH LIES BENEATH THE SURFACE ​As the night of the witch hunt ends, the Nebulis Sovereignty finds it’s sustained nearly insurmountable damage. Its citizens are pointing fingers at the royal family, demanding they take responsibility for the chaos and accelerate the conclave to select a new queen. Meanwhile, Alice entrusts Iska with the task of rescuing Sisbell, the only one capable of revealing who is responsible for the Imperial raid. Iska’s next destination? The research facility run by the House of Hydra! Just who is the blue-haired princess who awaits them there?

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A crusade forgotten by history, tainted by the mark of the devil. The final volume of an epic adventure in the Holy Land.Gauthier and Osarias have reached Jebel Tarr, the city of the flagellants, where the breath of the Qa'dj now resides. They want to extinguish it forever, but can such a demonic force ever be destroyed? Meanwhile, the machinations of Guy of Lusignan, and his thirst for power and blood, have brought the Cross and the Crescent to the brink of renewed war, one that only Syria of Arcos, torn between her feelings for the Sultan and Gauthier, can still prevent...

After ten thousand years of war, humanity has obtained its wish—crusading the Milky Way. My name was Argo Herrero. I’m now Lynx, my code of war. Planetary system after planetary system, we’ve slain all intelligent species once alive in our galaxy. All but one, the last intelligent species left to be purged by our ranks. What will become of us when we’ve purged the whole galaxy? I don’t know, but I’m afraid of what we’ll become, of what I’ve already become.

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This book investigates the concept of the heroic, questions what it is that makes the national hero an indispensable appendage to any possible interpretation of national identity, and asks why scholars stop short before coming to terms with this elusive phenomenon. It finds answers by following heroic traditions in Scotland, Norway and Lithuania from the early modern period to the twentieth century. The book argues that heroic traditions - prevailing trends in situating heroes in national history - owe much to the early modern state. Both national heroes and the nation state had been conceived with a similar moral political mindset that looked for new ways to identify sources for commonality. The confluence of political theory and Realpolitik attested to three classical types of polities, i.e. civitas popularis (democracy), regnum (kingship), and optimatium (aristocracy), as found at that time in Scotland, Norway and Lithuania respectively. The author shows the varied impact these patterns had on heroic traditions. The long record of national heroes in Scotland is explained as a vestige of the legacy of civic humanism, the continuing traditions of the heroic king-lines in Norway are seen as a result of long-standing absolutism, while the belated arrival of national heroes in Lithuania is excused by the country's aristocratic if at times oligarchic past.