The Emperor's Soul

Paperback, 175 pages

English language

Published Nov. 7, 2012 by Tachyon.

ISBN:
978-1-61696-092-6
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OCLC Number:
793575540

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4 stars (18 reviews)

When Shai is caught replacing the Moon Scepter with her nearly flawless forgery, she must bargain for her life and create--to Forge--a new soul for the emperor in less than one hundred days.

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I bought this on a lark recently when it went on sale at Amazon for 2.99. It's a novella, so a very short read, but I enjoyed it tremendously. It's set in the same world as Elantris, but if Jindo hadn't been mentioned at one point, you wouldn't have been able to tell.

Shai is a Forger in the Rose Empire, and she has been caught by the arbiters, the rulers of the Empire, for forging one of the arbiter's paintings. Forgers can't just forge paintings in this setting, they use a magic with soulstamps that can completely reshape objects and even souls around them. The arbiters force Shai to work for them, to do one thing: to forge the Emperor's soul as he has been mute and deaf since an assassination attempt. They set Shai a limit of 100 days to achieve this goal.

90% of the novella plays …

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Subjects

  • Forgery
  • Forgers
  • Fiction
  • Fantasy

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