Artash was a hard but loving man, both Dara’s commander and his father. His gaze lowered and his face burning, Dara approached, taking the cushion beside his father, aching to ask him what was going on. “We can hardly converse when you’re all the way back there.” “Come forward, young warrior,” a Baga Nahid teased. His own heart was pounding so hard he could hear it in his ears, more embarrassing because he knew the healers could detect it as well.Īlmost too nervous to proceed, Dara prostrated himself before he even neared the throne, dropping to the ground to press his face into the carpet.Ī chuckle broke the tense silence. Everyone bowed before the Nahids, but there was a simmering despair under his father’s carefully neutral expression Dara had never seen before. Yet everything about the set of his features was wrong.
Indeed, his father, Artash, was there when Dara arrived, kneeling before the shedu throne, his helmet at his side. Zaydi al Qahtani takes votes with his generals and sends their sons to rebuild villages we have destroyed, he recalled his father complain to his mother in a whispered conversation, while we make assassins out of warriors we should be training to lead. Considered a prodigy with the bow, he’d been taken for specialised training two years earlier, a decision that had quietly irked his father.
Dara knew he was favoured”though he came from a talented generation of Afshins, he was head and shoulders above his cousins when it came to military skills. Afshin minors did not get summoned by the Nahid Council. When it became clear it wasn’t, he was both thrilled and panicked. Seeking support in his mother’s homeland, he discovers that his connection to the marid goes far deeper than expected and threatens not only his relationship with Nahri, but his very faith.Īs peace grows more elusive and old players return, Nahri, Ali, and Dara come to understand that in order to remake the world, they may need to fight those they once loved … and take a stand for those they once hurt.Īt first Dara thought it was a mistake. Ali, too, cannot help but look back, and is determined to return to rescue his city and the family that remains. While Nahri finds peace in the old rhythms and familiar comforts of her human home, she is haunted by the knowledge that the loved ones she left behind and the people who considered her a saviour are at the mercy of a new tyrant. Having narrowly escaped their murderous families and Daevabad’s deadly politics, Nahri and Ali, now safe in Cairo, face difficult choices of their own.
To vanquish them, he must face some ugly truths about his history and put himself at the mercy of those he once considered enemies.
#CITY OF BRASS TRILOGY IN ORDER FULL#
Here’s a rundown of the story so far, for some context”followed by the full cover and excerpt.Īfter a brutal conquest stripped the city of its magic, Nahid leader Banu Manizheh and her resurrected commander, Dara, must try to repair their fraying alliance and stabilise a fractious, warring people.īut the bloodletting and loss of his beloved Nahri have unleashed the worst demons of Dara’s dark past. It’s not due out until the end of June, but Gizmodo has an exclusive sneak peek to tempt you today. Chakraborty made her debut in 2017 with acclaimed fantasy tale The City of Brass, followed by The Kingdom of Copper, and now, trilogy’s final entry: The Empire of Gold.
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