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Reign of Stars
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(Book)
Author(s) Tim Pratt
Publisher Paizo Inc.
Price Print: $9.99
ePub/PDF: $6.99
Released August 2014
Type Novel
Binding Paperback, ePub
Pages 400 pages
isbn ISBN 978-1-60125-660-7
ISBN 978-1-60125-661-4 (ebook)
Series Pathfinder Tales
Follows The Crusader Road
Precedes Nightblade
Artwork from Reign of Stars

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.

“ 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? ”

Characters

Reign of Stars features the following characters:

Contents

  • Map
  • Chapter 1 Intangible Assassin
  • Chapter 2 Dead Letter
  • Chapter 3 Many Rooms
  • Chapter 4 The Eel
  • Chapter 5 The Road, Again
  • Chapter 6 River Pirates
  • Chapter 7 The Sea Snake
  • Chapter 8 Night's Numerian Shore
  • Chapter 9 Erastil's Blessing
  • Chapter 10 Automaton
  • Chapter 11 Annihilator
  • Chapter 12 Welcome to Starfall
  • Chapter 13 Palace of Fallen Stars
  • Chapter 14 New Business
  • Chapter 15 Experimental Interrogations
  • Chapter 16 In the Court of the Black Sovereign
  • Chapter 17 Dawn Departure
  • Chapter 18 Felldales
  • Chapter 19 Delving into the Wreck
  • Chapter 20 Silver Statues
  • Chapter 21 Jailbroken
  • 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
  • Chapter 27 Bound South
  • About the Author
  • Acknowledgements
  • Glossary

Paizo has published Chapter One on-line as the Reign of Stars Sample Chapter.

Index

Index for Reign of Stars
Terms with a superscript 'S' are considered significant. Quoted text ("...") is taken directly from the book.
Characters
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
  • Witch Queen Baba Yaga
  • Baldy
  • Black Sovereign
  • Bugbear
  • Cantor [priest]
  • Carys
  • CharS [Ulfen]
  • Gad
  • Gannix [T-L arcanist]
  • Genthia [female Sargava/Inh; pirate: Ch 6]
  • Goddoff
  • Fat Harald
  • Hrym
  • Jaya
  • Kevoth-Kul
  • Kormak [T-L assassin]
  • Lodger [T-L Lt.]
  • Tek Makul
  • Malica [alchemist]
  • Minister of Retribution
  • Onionskin [owner Succulent Eel; chef]
  • Redfang
  • Rodrick
  • Shadowstalker [clr Erastil; Banner of the Stag/Members]
  • Old Skelton
  • Ralen Vadim
    • Creatures
    Animals & Vermin
    Constructs
  • annihilator
  • automaton
  • clockwork
  • "fire-spitting technic spiders" → arachnid robot (unnamed)
  • gearsman
  • golem
  • "metal men" → robot (unnamed)
  • murderball
  • myrmidon
    • Humanoids
    Other
    Items
    Alchemical
    Magical
  • artifact / artefact
  • "draught for breathing water" → potion of water breathing (unnamed)
  • Hrym
  • "magic bags / magically capacious bag" → bag of holding (unnamed)
  • "portal to a pocket dimension" → portable hole (unnamed)
  • potion
  • "potion that allowed him to move quickly" → potion of haste (unnamed)
  • "potion to protect...from frost" → potion of resist energy (unnamed)
  • scroll
  • staff
  • "temporally distorting potions" → potion of haste (unnamed)
  • "vial of something that took all my fear away" → potion of remove fear (unnamed)
  • wand
  • wand of lightning
    • Ships
  • boat
  • cog
  • lifeboat
  • North Wind [Taldan capt.]
  • Sea Snake [Genthia capt.]
  • A Song of Stone
    • Skymetal
    Technological
    Weapons & Armour
    Other
    Locations
    Almas, Andoran (Andoren)
    Starfall, Numeria
  • "the city's central square" → Inner Sector (unnamed)
  • Night markets
  • Palace of Fallen StarsS
  • Silver MountS (The Mount)
  • Street of Lights
  • Technic League CompoundS (including Meat Garden)
    • Numeria (Numerian)
    Avistan
    Golarion
    Material Plane & the Great Beyond
    Other
    Classes
    Magic
  • anti-magic
  • arcane magic
  • "bobbing globes of magical light" → dancing lights (unnamed)
  • clairaudience
  • clarion call (unnamed)
  • divination
  • enchantment
  • familiar
  • "forget-me-lots" → modify memory (unnamed)
  • glamoured
  • healing
  • illusion
  • magic-user
  • necromancy
  • portal
  • "protection spell" → abjuration (unnamed)
  • spell
  • telekinesis
  • teleport
  • wizardry
    • Organizations
  • Banner of the Stag
  • Crusader
  • Eagle Knights
  • Technic LeagueS (The League; Leaguers; the Council of Captains (see above); Ranks: Captain, Lieutenant)
  • White Witches
    • Religion & Philosophy
  • Aroden
  • Eldest
  • Erastil (Old Deadeye)
  • evil
  • Holy Fundament (Ass-Father, Divine Ass, Divine Fundament, Great Fundament)
  • god
  • Gorum
  • Lantern King
  • philosophy (philosopher)
    • 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)

    • Chronology

    The events of this novel almost certainly occur after the events of the Iron Gods Adventure Path.

    v • d • e
    The Life & Times of Alaeron & Rodrick: A list of their tales in chronological order
    Alaeron
    Rodrick


    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.

    v • d • e
    Pathfinder Fiction
     
    Pathfinder Tales novels
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