Burdens

In the long years after the world ends, elder empires struggle toward anuncertain rebirth under the shadow of the relentless demiurge Pantherion. Ahorse-headed man, a wizard always in need of a drink and a cast of otherstrange, unlikely souls struggle against the growing darkness, the machinationsof a foe that can twist beasts into monsters in service of a scourge that couldend all humanity.Join Burroughs Viklund, a morose man-monster who'd rather be tending hiswatermelons instead of...
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In the long years after the world ends, elder empires struggle toward anuncertain rebirth under the shadow of the relentless demiurge Pantherion. Ahorse-headed man, a wizard always in need of a drink and a cast of otherstrange, unlikely souls struggle against the growing darkness, the machinationsof a foe that can twist beasts into monsters in service of a scourge that couldend all humanity.Join Burroughs Viklund, a morose man-monster who'd rather be tending hiswatermelons instead of saving the world, Shaw, a somewhat-shifty magusreluctantly willing to die (and die again) for his Art, and Viday, a truly deerfriend, on their journey through the spindled Island of Caiphon in an adventureladen with action, wonder, pathos, talking dogs and surprisingly effective(though certainly off-label) uses of canned goods. Lose hope for the future ofhumanity, while having a blast doing it!BURDENS is Peter Trinidad's first novel in the UGLINESS MEN series. He wishesfor you to learn to suffer as he has. Remember, if you stare into the ugliness it becomes a part of you.