The Perfumer's Apprentice
"The Perfumer's Apprentice", a short story by Kevin Andrew Murphy, was released as Pathfinder Tales web fiction in January and February 2012 and was released as a compiled eBook in July 2012. It forms a sequel to Murphy's earlier web fiction, "The Secret of the Rose and Glove".
“The dead never come back right. That truth is abundantly clear to young Orlin. Resurrected by his alchemist brother, haunted by a ghostly harlot, and possessed of strange powers, Orlin is an oddity—something that isn't healthy in the revolution-torn nation of Galt, where any divergence from the norm can cost you your head. When the brothers seek lodgings with Madame Eglantine, an elderly widow with ties to the Revolutionary Council, they must agree never to stray near her private apartments. Yet what secrets could those rooms be hiding—and what actually happened to Madame Eglantine's husbands?
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Chapters
- The Flowers of Calistria - January 25, 2012 - link
- The Iris of Isarn - February 1, 2012 - link
- The Garland of Eglantine - February 8, 2012 - link
- The Scent of Honeysuckle - February 15, 2012 - link
Characters
"The Perfumer's Apprentice" features the following characters:
Chronology
The events of "The Perfumer's Apprentice" take place after those in "The Secret of the Rose and Glove" and before the events of "Thieves Vinegar".
Index
- For an alphabetical listing of all the relevant terms in this story, please visit its Index.