GHOST IN THE TOWER full speed ahead!
Now that SEVENFOLD SWORD: TOWER is out, it’s time to proceed full speed ahead on GHOST IN THE TOWER. (Which has no connection to SEVENFOLD SWORD: TOWER – just a quirk of timing that the titles are so similar.) If all goes well, GHOST IN THE TOWER will be out in December.
GHOST IN THE TOWER will have three main POV characters:
1.) Caina.
2.) Ariadne Scorneus, high magus of the Imperial Magisterium.
3.) Calaver Aberon, battle magus of the Imperial Magisterium.
Here’s the official book description:
Caina has hated the Imperial Magisterium, the Empire’s college of magi, for all her life…and the magi hate and fear her right back.
But the Magisterium has much bigger problems right now, and the First Magus is willing to make a deal. If Caina can find the root cause of a mysterious string of suicides, the Magisterium will leave her in peace.
Except the suicides are actually murders.
And unless Caina is clever, she’ll be the murderer’s next victim…
-JM
Would Calaver Aberon be one of Decius Aberon’s many illegitimate children, and therefore Corvalis’ and Claudia’s half-sibling? For that matter, how many children does Decius have?
Calaver is indeed one of Decius’s illegitimate children.
Decius has several dozen of them. A minority of the magi have as many children as possible in order to train them into loyal followers and enforcers. (It’s like farmers having as many kids as possible for the free labor.) Hyrakeon Scorneus tried something similar on a smaller scale with his daughters, which worked well right up until Talmania and Rania decided that they were sick of him. Talmania herself tried to do that with Seb and Calvia after Laeria abandoned them, though she didn’t want to deal with the bother of having children herself.