Furies Of Calderon: The Codex Alera: Book One

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Bow and Sword in Accord: Being both a powerful earthcrafter and woodcrafter, he's just as capable shooting targets at long range as he is at smashing them to a p

Some did not like the ridiculous situations that are in the book, and some repeated things and ideas that get old throughout the six books of the series. Some found that the pacing in the novel was quite bad. Future Imperfect: The details of Alerans' Roman origins from a few thousand years ago have been largely forgotten with such things like the adversaries they annihilated being only known now by the extinct foes' names, leading to contemporary scholars having a variety of baseless opinions on how the "Romanic" people were, such as assuming their ancestors were capable of furycraft as modern Alerans are. Action Mom: From an aunt's perspective, she is very protective of her nephew. She once flooded a river to keep him safe. Turns out, though, that she is his mother.

He was a large man, broad-shouldered and strong, his dark hair and beard, both clipped short in Legion fashion, salted with threads of premature silver. His strong, weather-darkened face broke into a wide smile, and he caught Amara up in his arms as though she weighed no more than a newborn lamb. (Cursor’s Fury ch 2) “Dark hair, beard, a little grey in them.” “My,” said Serai. “But hardly old. Went silver early, I’d say. That’s always attractive in a man. It means he has both power enough to have responsibilities and conscience enough to worry over them. And—” She paused and blinked. “He’s rather strong, isn’t he?” (Cursor’s Fury ch 12) Calderonus Bernard, House of Calderon [ ] Shrouded in Myth: The ancient Romans who would become the ancestors of the modern Alerans first arrived in Carna two millennia ago. Eventually, after millennia of strife and war (both against their inhuman neighbors and then against themselves when they "ran out of foes" to practice their skills on), the original Gaius Primus conquered and united the disparate groups of Alerans all under his banner and founded the modern Realm of Alera. This time period is very poorly understood by the modern Alerans, to the point that despite numerous Roman ruins scattered across the land many Aleran scholars have shown incredibly biased and provably false attitudes towards the Romans, such as claiming that they had access to furycrafting since most Alerans think furycrafting is a vital component needed for any "civilized" species to found a long-lasting civilization with. In fact, this period of constant conflict was so long ago that many of the foes the ancient Alerans fought during that time (i.e., the Children of the Sun) have been reduced to half-remembered anecdotes in history class for most modern Alerans. Does Not Know His Own Strength: Isana is an incredibly powerful watercrafter – one of the strongest in all of Alera. She never really grasped how powerful she was, assuming that her great strength came from familiarity with the Calderon Valley's furies. It isn't until later on that she begins to understand her true strength, and suspects that Septimus passed on many of his furies to her when he died. The entire realm is called to arms against the Vord as the Vord War rapidly gains momentum. Bernard is angry because he warned his own leige, Lord Rivus Grantus of Riva, to no avail. He tried to alert the senate, including Senator Arnos, but his words fell on deaf ears. Gaius Sextus asks Bernard and Amara to travel secretly into the heart of vord territory to discover how the queen is transforming loyal citizens into mindless slaves. They learn about the Slave Collar. Bernard is a large-framed man, extremely fit from habit and hard work, first in the Legion as a Centurion, later as a Steadholder in a dangerous frontier land. His dark hair has some premature silver. (Cursor’s Fury ch 12)

A Knight Flora,” the First Lord said quietly. “Like you.” “Never served as a Knight, sire,” Bernard said, shaking his head. “Centurion in the auxiliary cohort.” Bernard shrugged. “Knights in my Legion…seemed a little full of themselves, sire. Didn’t feel like spending all my time with them.” ( Captain's Fury chapter 22) Furycrafting [ ] Writing for The Independent (St. George, Utah), Rich Rogers awarded the novel 5 out 5 stars, calling it a great epic fantasy that stands on its own without borrowing from the usual fantasy tropes. He lauded Jim Butcher's successful turn at the fantasy genre in a more traditional setting, and praised the complex characterization of the antagonists. [14] Our final villain is Cord. He’s written to be so disable that we all want him dead. Because of his involvement with the Odiana torture, we’re all happy to see him die, but I hesitate to even consider him a real character.And finally we have Amara. The real protagonist for the book, the one that gets the entire plot moving and manages to throw her high-lord granted power around to get things done. Despite technically being a student to Fidaleius, she’s competent and is able to outsmart the older man at times. I’m excited to see her character grow and see what she can become because based just on what we know from this book, there has to be something more powerful for her to move towards, but when it comes to controlling an air fury, we don’t really know what that is. We’ve had a little taste of earth, water, and metal, but not air. Appearances: Furies of Calderon (first appearance), Academ's Fury, Princeps' Fury, First Lord's Fury Fans of the novel found themselves enjoying the hints of things that will come, and the novel moves at a nice pace. The final third of things has quite a nice twist that it was easy for some to forgive certain things that this novel does not do right. Some found things in this to be even better this time around, and you get to see an interesting character, Tavi, grow more in this one as he takes on more responsibility. Some like Tavi as he does not have any furies, which makes him work much harder than anyone else in the series; some feel that too many people rely only on the furies and they do not think of how to get out of something without them. The villains, some say, are not obvious at all, because you can see and kind of agree with what they have to say about certain things. Some of these villains are actually sort of gray characters, not full on bad guys, an interesting touch, no doubt. For fans of great writing in fantasy (of the swords and horse variety), this is a great read.