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At long last, here is the new book! 

It's a full 50% longer than the other two, which wasn't really the plan from the start, but it's just what happened.

I really hope everyone enjoys it!

E: Removed for WSQ 4 release.

You can get the book by pledging at a higher tier or by checking it out on Amazon here: Amazon.com: Kingdom of Stars (War of the White Throne Book 3) eBook : Hawke, Sarah: Books


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Anonymous

Slight issue with the background details. Namely, the characters' ages don't synch up. Rohen is said to 20, Zin is 21, Jessara is 20 and Delaryn 19. I don't recall if we are explicitly told Sehris' age but Zin at one point says of her and Delaryn when they were 10, suggesting Sehris and Delaryn are the same age. But if we are to believe Rohen is Jorem's son, Jessara should be a year or two older. Jorem never had an elven lover before Solemi, during the Highwind series. He later hooked up with Headmistress Telanya and Selvhara. The most likely time for Jorem to have conceived a child with Solemi was their final liaison for that specific purpose, in Reckoning. But Jessara appears to already have been born before Reckoning, given the inscription on Marcella's Tel Bator-made sword in the prologue. Also, from the descriptions and narrative efficiency, it seems likely that Sehris is the child of Laetharys seen in the epilogue to Reckoning, when Solemi is pregnant. If Solemi is pregnant with Rohen in that incident, Sehris is more than a year older than Delaryn. And Yria acts like she is the elder of the two siblings. So the EARLIEST conception times are Jorem and Solemi conceived Yria at their first encounter, then he fathered Rohen on Telanya, while Solemi carried and gave birth to Yria in secret behind the scenes during the Highwind series, then asked Jorem to father another, as yet unrevealed child on her, with which she was pregnant during the coda to Reckoning. Or Zin is wrong about Sehris and Delaryn being 10 at the same time. Or somehow they passed off a rather younger boy as a year older than Delaryn in the orphanage and Rohen is not yet actually 20, but is an enormous teenager. Or Marcella attacked Highwind bearing a blade with the name of a child Edmund Kraythe would be having soon with some other woman. Also the child of Jorem & Solemi would be a quarter elf. In most fantasy, that doesn't count as elven. And a pureblood drow should take longer to grow up than a half (or quarter) elf and a couple of humans. But it could be the rules are different in this setting, or Solemi did something to make Rohen's elven traits more prominent or the circumstances of Sehris' conception could be responsible for her aging at a human rate. But Jorem being Rohen's & Yria's father absolutely does not synch up with what we seem to be told about Jessara and Marcella. It seems like the most probable parentage is that Jorem fathered Yria on Telanya during the first Amazon series, and Rohen on Solemi during Amazon's Vengeance. But as I said, it does not match up with Jessara having already been born before the book where Solemi asks Jorem to get her pregnant (and why would she do that if she already was pregnant?). And there is no reason for the characters to believe incorrect ages for Jessara and Delaryn, since they were raised publicly as the daughters of prominent men. Delaryn seems to be confirmed as her mother's daughter, given the voice, and her powers, so there's no reason to assume some deception with her background

Anonymous

Okay, but what about Jessara being born before Reckoning and Rohen probably being conceived much later? Also, is "The Dragon Bride" part of the continuity with the Highwind and Darenthi stories? If so, it seems the backstory of that one explains Jorem's origins.

Sarah Hawke

Jess was born about a year before Reckoning. She's about a year older than Rohen and ~2 older than Delaryn.

Anonymous

Okay, thanks. I was just caught up on the discrepancy that she and Rohen are both said to be 20 and she's even 19 in the flashbacks. It had me wondering if we were supposed to take the other things at face value or not.

Sarah Hawke

They would probably both be technically the same age for like a month per year :P On my timeline it's like: -21: Jess, Sehris born -20: Reckoning, Yria then Rohen born -19: Delaryn born just before Gareth's Stand -14: Silver Falls taken by Delaryn's father -2: Civil war ends 0: Queen of the Pale I don't have exact months but close enough