The Bonehunters | |
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Dramatis Personae | Prologue |
The Thousand-Fingered God | |
Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 |
Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 |
Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 |
Beneath This Name | |
Chapter 7 | Chapter 8 |
Chapter 9 | Chapter 10 |
Chapter 11 | |
Shadows of the King | |
Chapter 12 | Chapter 13 |
Chapter 14 | Chapter 15 |
Chapter 16 | |
The Bonehunters | |
Chapter 17 | Chapter 18 |
Chapter 19 | Chapter 20 |
Chapter 21 | Chapter 22 |
Chapter 23 | Chapter 24 |
Epilogue | Pagination |
Epigraph |
There is something profoundly cynical, my friends, in the notion of paradise after death. The lure is evasion. The promise is excusative. One need not accept responsibility for the world as it is, and by extension, one need do nothing about it. To strive for change, for true goodness in this mortal world, one must acknowledge and accept, within one’s own soul, that this mortal reality has purpose in itself, that its greatest value is not for us, but for our children and their children. To view life as but a quick passage along a foul, tortured path – made foul and tortured by our own indifference – is to excuse all manner of misery and depravity, and to exact cruel punishment upon the innocent lives to come. The Decade in Ehrlitan |