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Nine years after disappearing at sea, during a storm Murchadh the fisherman washed ashore, bequeathing to his son, Cormac this terrible artefact: It along with the quest to the island of Antilia near where Tuathmurdún lies, to destroy the Blood-Gem with the mystical Spear of Light.

It's a Scottish tale part way between Lord of the Rings, and Vinland Saga

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Karla QuathRoyal Road

★★★★★ 5.0

Great story so far, I'm really enjoying it though it's pretty slow to start. I really like that it's mostly like tolkien in style and all but I'm wondering if maybe you could update more often as it’s a pain having to wait week after week for new updates, but overall cool concept. Also when will there be some actual action?

Lyrical High FantasyRoyal Road

★★★★★ 5.0

The story is at once refreshing; it's style and characters hint at deep world-building and epic scale. A snippet here:
"The spot where he had fallen, it was said that the largest of all the oaks of Rothien had grown from, one that all the children and elders of the land tended to remark was destined to never fall."
I also enjoy the wry humor within many of the sentences. Stories that take themselves seriously (and in an excellent way, this one does) but also give me chance to laugh are perfect:
" “That is precisely the issue I have, we should not speak of such nonsense as ‘auspicious’,” Trygve complained loudly, far more so than any of them might well have liked. "
This also is an example of the narrator's voice, which I love in this story. It's strong and wry, and tells the story like you might here a bard telling it by a great fire.
The pacing, in my opinion, is great; the story has time to breath and establish us within the world. For those of you reading mostly on this site, though, it will be much slower than many stories here.
The grammar is also excellent, though at times I find myself needing to re-read sections, as the sentences and constructions grow long.
There are a great host of characters, but the narrative does a good job keeping them straight in my head, and it adds to the sense that I'm truly in the world. It feels fantasy in the way that fantasy should.
Overall, this is an excellent read, and especially by the time
happens, you know the characters and place well and are immediately curious.

Brotherhood of the Gemstone

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