Vanja and Emeric set out to discover whether the Scarlet Maiden is a true Low God and attempt to save Emeric from her claim. And soon after he arrives, the Scarlet Maiden herself appears and claims Emeric as her servant and sacrifice. When Emeric shows up to investigate reports of a cult, he is surprised to discover Vanja at its center.

One particularly bleak, drunken night, after Vanja appropriates a local legend to gain assistance in recovering her dropped rubies, she is named the prophet of the Scarlet Maiden. Vanja is back in the sequel to Owen’s Little Thieves (2021), and she has traded her title of thief for leader of a small-town cult.ĭespite saving Minkja, gaining the affection of Junior Prefect Emeric Conrad, and reassuming her own identity, Vanja still doubts she is good enough.

Characters’ skin tones range from pale to olive.Ī sequel that delivers on the worldbuilding set up by its predecessor. While slow to start, the adventure shifts back into gear in the second half with plenty of action sequences amid the chaste, blooming romance that develops between Ren and Chiara. This sequel introduces welcome new characters as well as bringing Jenna, Enzo, and Mari back into the fold, and the villains become more developed characters. In the process, they discover that what the mages are really after are the keys to the mythical Black Library, which contains long-hidden powerful artifacts and records of ancient mages’ knowledge-and that they will use any means at their disposal to find these keys and the location of the library itself. Ren volunteers to go after her and agrees to help her with her quest. Meanwhile, Princess Chiara of Turia, herself possessing no magic, formulates a plan to find her kidnapped father and prove herself useful to her family.

The royal families of Hálendi and Turia come together once more to fight against the threat of ancient mages who seek to control the entire Plateau in this sequel to Shielded (2020).Ī royal wedding in the neighboring kingdom of Riiga proves to be a trap designed to lure the kings of both Hálendi and Turia, but the newly crowned King Ren of Hálendi manages to evade it.

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