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== Publisher's summary == | == Publisher's summary == | ||
The [[Great Houses]] | The [[Great Houses]]: Immovable. Implacable. Unchanging. Old enough to pass themselves off as immortal, arrogant enough to claim ultimate authority over the [[Spiral Politic]]. | ||
[[The Enemy]]: Not so much an army as a hostile new kind of history. So ambitious it can re-write worlds, so complex that even calling it by its name seems to underestimate it. | |||
[[ | [[Faction Paradox]]: Renegades, ritualists, saboteurs and subterfugers, the criminal-cult to end all criminal-cults, happy to be caught in the crossfire and ready to take whatever's needed from the wreckage... assuming the other powers leave behind a universe that's habitable. | ||
[[The War]]: A fifty-year-old dispute over the two most valuable territories in existence: "cause" and "effect." | |||
[[The War]] | |||
A fifty-year-old dispute over the two most valuable territories in existence: "cause" and "effect." | |||
Marking the first five decades of the conflict, [[The Book of the War|THE BOOK OF THE WAR]] is an A to Z of a self-contained continuum and a complete guide to the [[Spiral Politic]], from the beginning of recordable [[time]] to the fall of [[human]]ity. Part story, part history and part puzzle-box, this is a chronicle of protocol and paranoia in a War where the historians win as many battles as the soldiers and the greatest victory of all is to hold on to your own past... | Marking the first five decades of the conflict, [[The Book of the War|THE BOOK OF THE WAR]] is an A to Z of a self-contained continuum and a complete guide to the [[Spiral Politic]], from the beginning of recordable [[time]] to the fall of [[human]]ity. Part story, part history and part puzzle-box, this is a chronicle of protocol and paranoia in a War where the historians win as many battles as the soldiers and the greatest victory of all is to hold on to your own past... | ||
