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Great Harry's latest Videssos novel is somewhat, but not altogether, grim in both plot--usurpation and civil war lead to devastating barbarian conquests on the outskirts of the Videssan empire--and the development of the main character, Rhavas, a prelate of Phos. Rhavas has ecclesiastical ambitions yet is a true believer in the god with the great and good mind. He stands up for his beliefs when barbarians besiege and sack his city. But the horrors he sees and the crimes he commits during the fighting, and the discovery that he has the power to fatally curse his enemies, lead him into the heresy of wondering whether the god with the great and good mind is stronger than the evil power, Skotos. His logical examination of this idea leads to a great deal of trouble for both himself and Videssos. Dr. T can't write a bad book, and this novel is quite intriguing, if less amusing, than many of the 11 previous Videssos books. Frieda Murray
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Rhavas was a good, holy, and pious man - and the cousin of the Avtokrator. He would probably have become ecumenical patriarch of the Empire in the capital, Videssos the city...if his world had not suddenly and tragically fallen apart when the Empire of Videssos erupted into civil war and the Khamonh barbarians swarmed over the borders. As the home he loved was brutally sacked, Rhavas had to flee for his life, then make his way through lands swarming with fierce nomads and with soldiers loyal both to his cousin and to the rebel. He may never see Videssos the city again, let alone preside in its High Temple. He has always followed Phos, the god of light and goodness, Videssos' god, and despised evil rival Skotos. Those who fall off the Bridge of the Separator during judgment in the afterlife tumble down to Skotos' ice forevermore. But when evil seems to have swallowed the whole world, what is a cleric who reverences logic as well as goodness sup- posed to believe? It's a harder question than Rhavas wishes it were.
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