Reign of Stars, a novel by Tim Pratt, was released in August 2014. The novel follows the characters and events of Pratt's 2012 novel, City of the Fallen Sky.
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When the leader of the ruthless Technic League calls in a favor, the mild-mannered alchemist Alaeron has no choice but to face a life he thought he'd left behind long ago. Accompanied by his only friend, a street-savvy thief named Skiver, Alaeron must head north into Numeria, a land where brilliant and evil arcanists rule over the local barbarian tribes with technology looted from a crashed spaceship. Can Alaeron and Skiver survive long enough to unlock the secrets of the stars? Or will the backstabbing scientists of the Technic League make Alaeron's curiosity his undoing?
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Characters
Reign of Stars features the following characters:
Contents
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- Chapter 1 Intangible Assassin
- Chapter 5 The Road, Again
- Chapter 8 Night's Numerian Shore
- Chapter 9 Erastil's Blessing
- Chapter 12 Welcome to Starfall
- Chapter 13 Palace of Fallen Stars
- Chapter 15 Experimental Interrogations
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- Chapter 16 In the Court of the Black Sovereign
- Chapter 17 Dawn Departure
- Chapter 19 Delving into the Wreck
- Chapter 20 Silver Statues
- Chapter 22 Going to Ground
- Chapter 23 A Few Short Scenes About Rogues
- Chapter 24 Triumphant Returns
- Chapter 25 Behind the Black Door
- Chapter 26 The Aforementioned Glory
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Paizo has published Chapter One on-line as the Reign of Stars Sample Chapter.
Index
| Index for Reign of Stars |
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| | Terms with a superscript 'S' are considered significant. Quoted text ("...") is taken directly from the book. | |
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| | Significant characters | | | The Council of Captains
(League council, Technic League council) |
"birdlike brunette woman" → ???
Captain BothvaldS ["smirking Ulfen man with long blond hair and a perfectly trimmed beard"; "soft-spoken Ulfen"]
Captain Callis [female gnome; "milk-white skin and shocking blue hair"]
Captain Elias Embervale ["short, stocky fellow with a nest of white hair and a bright steel eyepatch seemingly welded to his face"]
Kellid: "four Kellids—two men and two women—with shaved heads and silver jewelry in their ears, dressed in matching black cloaks" → ???
Captain Krastus
Captain Leonitas
Captain Lofan
Shoanti: "elaborately tattooed Shoanti" → ??Akradenn (unnamed)
Varisian: "bored-looking sorcerer who might have been Varisian, wearing star-patterned robes and making flames dance in the palms of his hands" → ??Avernethy Mendaini (unnamed)
Captain Xanos [gunslinging dwarf; "wearing immense red-tinted goggles"]
Captain ZernebethS | | | Other characters | |
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| | Classes | | | | Magic | | | | Organizations | | | | Religion & Philosophy | | | | Science | | | | Miscellaneous | | | | Unknown |
"alchemical extract that boosted my intellect" (Chapter 25)
Char's "transporter device"
"a coin-sized, irregularly shaped bit of black glass" (Chapter 17)
"colored mists that devour people" (Chapter 17)
Council of Captains: unknown members mentioned by description (see above)
"the court skald" (Chapter 16)
"green metal staff" (Chapter 21)
"immense red-tinted goggles" (Chapter 14)
"insectlike optics" (Chapter 13)
"a plant that only grows reliably in one particular place in Numeria" (Chapter 4)
robot in Chapter 10: ?variant scrapyard robot
"a small, fist-sized globe of alchemical light" (Chapter 10)
"that stuff that keeps you up all night" (Chapter 7)
"thick, purplish-black, glittering cloud" (Chapter 25)
"time-altering staff"S (Chapter 21)
Zernebeth's pair of clairaudience earringsS
Zernebeth's present: "black box", "black cube", "magic box"S (?variant emergency shelter) |
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Chronology
The events of this novel almost certainly occur after the events of the Iron Gods Adventure Path.
| The Life & Times of Alaeron & Rodrick: A list of their tales in chronological order |
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Page Numbering
Unusually for a Paizo publication, the page numbering in the printed novel is two pages behind that of the PDF version. To avoid confusion, only chapter numbering is used on this page.
