The kingdom of Carinthia is rich, powerful and undefeated. A thousand years ago, its ancestors were the spell-wielding northern tribes who crushed the Roman Empire. Their legendary hexmasters can destroy whole armies and turn battlefields into fiery lakes of lava.
Magic is Carinthia's wealth, protection and way of life. But the age of magic is dying. Some would do anything to see it return: any act, no matter how terrible, is justified, so long as the hexmasters can still protect their homeland.
The kingdom is poised between order and chaos - and the smallest spark is the difference between disaster and triumph.
ARCANUM is powerful new epic fantasy from an award-winning author.
Industry Reviews
A clever idea for a fantasy novel: In a mediaeval Europe where a kingdom uses magic to win every battle, not to mention run the plumbing, the maic suddenly fails. The panic this causes makes heroes and villains of ordinary folk and epic violence ensues, an interesting rumination on whether characters are born or moulded by circumstance. And the struggle to discover real technology is a heartening reminder of how well our species has done in the real world to build civilisation without so much as a hocus pocus
