Zotien's First Law

Free will being sacred, no man nor woman nor intelligent being shall be bound unwilling.

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High priest S'Rak has more than earned the trust and friendship of Prince Jethain, and the love and acceptance of the reticent Captain Jisten. Mindful of the harsh price of the Koilathan "decency" laws, S'Rak and Jisten have taken care to keep their love private. But when the prince is attacked by chaos magic, the pair must reveal the depths of their relationship in order to save him.

The jealous prince is certain that S'Rak seduced his only friend because of the nickname, and that nothing good will come of their affair. Will Jethain come to accept the pair's love for each other, or will he try to steal the Captain, his oldest, dearest, and only real friend, for himself?

 
While Jethain wrestles with his dilemma, the Lord of Night has no such difficulties. He is infuriated by the very nature of the relationship S'Rak and Jisten share, for it violates His most sacred Law, that of free will. Can Jisten convince Zotien that his love for S'Rak is true, and that he freely accepted the bond joining them at a soul-deep level? Or will the outlaw hunt ride down and destroy S'Rak for his crimes, and thereby destroy the very prophecy S'Rak was sent to preserve?

Rak and Jisten

Honor, Duty, Lust.

Captain Jisten is a man divided. Honor, on the one hand, and love, on the other. It’s difficult to balance the needs of his partner, S’Rak, and the needs of the prince he serves. It doesn’t help that the prince is acting oddly and growing increasingly jealous of the time his captain spends with the high priest. But then Jisten is drawn into the dark world of S’Rak’s past, where he is forced to confront his deepest fears. Racial pride and heritage war with his need for sanity and decency.
   
Will Jisten learn to accept S’Rak for who he is and face his internal demons, or will he withdraw behind the shield of duty and abandon the man he loves?

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Midnight Matters

Dragons blasting down Sun Temples, sun priests invading the palace, nothing to report.

High priest S’Rak successfully prevented his brother’s assassination and discovered, to his delight, that Captain Jisten wasn’t under a vow of purity after all. But nothing is as simple as it should be, and the prince’s health continues to decline, and discovering the cause stirs up far worse trouble than anyone expected.

While Jisten might not be under a vow of purity, it stands to reason that a sun priest should be, but that doesn’t seem to bother S’Rak’s enemies. When the high priest appears powerless to stop the senior sun priest’s abuses, allowing himself to be victimized for the sake of the Victory Prophecy, the captain takes matters into his own hands. 

He has a good crossbow, the help of a Goddess, and a dragon. What could possibly go wrong?

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Assassins

I apologize for the lateness of this. Book 6 was released on the 1st of February. I think it has the best cover yet. What do you guys think?

Dark Servant #6, Assassins

There's an assassin in the pantry.

High priest S’Rak is a man beset by many problems. The king wants to crown him, the sun priests want to purify him, and the palace slave trainer just wants him. Captain Jisten stands at the heart of an ethical dilemma that continues to plague Rak, for either Jisten is an oathbreaker or Rak is a rapist, and neither result bodes well for their future in the service of a God whose punishment for either crime is death. On top of all that, chaos-wielding assassins are trying to kill his brother.

What’s a high priest to do when the man of his dreams is under a vow of purity and assassins lurk around every corner?

The Hobbit: A Review

I don't often review books, and I never review movies, but in this case, I'm going to make an exception.

I give Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey five stars, two thumbs up, an A+, or whatever uber-positive rating you wish. Tolkien's work has always been near and dear to my heart, and I've read it all, from the Simarillion to the Lost Tales. I first read The Hobbit when I was seven. At the time, I enjoyed it for the adventure story it was, taking little thought to the larger picture of Tolkien's intricate, richly detailed world.

If Peter Jackson had stuck to just the words contained within The Hobbit, he would have ended up with a kid's movie that seemed barely related to the events of The Lord of the Rings. But he didn't contain his vision of Tolkien's world, for which I am profoundly grateful. Instead, he drew on other sources, such as the Simarillion, The Lord of the Rings, The Unfinished Tales, and the many reams of notes and thoughts that Tolkien left behind that were never published. He took this matieral and presented The Hobbit to us in the context of the greater whole. Much more was going on in Middle Earth than Bilbo's adventure, and Jackson brought this to light and life.

 
Purists might argue that he should have stuck to the book, and nothing but the book. That's already been done, and the cartoon version of The Hobbit is laughable. What Peter Jackson gave us was The Hobbit grown up and as spectacular, in its way, as his version of The Lord of the Rings. I highly recommend this movie, and I can't wait until next December.