Free Gunpowder by G.H. Guzik Page B

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and blockade the port customs in Smiteverden.
     
    Smiteverden - a port city on the northern
peninsula formed as a trade outpost of the Trade Guild Federation
to allow the exchange with the barbaric tribes living in the fjords
of the Northern Peninsula. Repeatedly invaded by the Karahamian
pirates and Ipionese ships belonging both to Mandarinate's Navy, as
well as to private, but surprisingly well-organized, adventurers.
Over time, sturdy walls were built around the city, and the harbour
was defended by two brick forts initially equipped with catapults,
then trebuchets, and finally with mortars and cannons. Municipal
policy of adding new weapons, rather than replacing the old ones,
made the fortalices' artillery extremely diverse and
numerous.

 
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Northern Kaesary - the country, whose traditions
fade into the mists of history. Founded by the legendary ruler of
the First Men - Alkasender The Heavendescended. In the days of the
so-called First Empire it arose from a small settlement on the
northern shore of the Outer Ocean and spilled across the continent
of Herbion. Northern Kaesary was established after the secession of
the six oldest imperial provinces from the falling Empire of the
Two Cultures also known as the Middle State, which itself did not
survive the war that followed. A side effect was also the rise of a
small trading settlement - Daelwynn - to the status of a free
city.
     
    Ulhn - the capital of the Northern
Kaesary, and the River Province, located in the delta of the Trail
on the islands and islets formed by the river and both its
banks.
     
    Rixburg - a city of culture, the
capital of the Land Province, in which the richest estates in the
empire are situated. The fertile lands and thick forests in the
south and the abundance of coal and iron in the north make it the
richest province of the Kaesary.

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About the Author
     
    G.H. Guzik - Born in Opole, Poland, in 1979, a
bilingual writer, writing in Polish and English. His first science
fiction story was written at the age of ten, but changing dreams
into reality and pursuing the writer's path took him more than a
quarter of the century. In the meantime, he gathered helpful
experience.
     
    He was educated at Elizabeth College of Guernsey and Warsaw
School of Economics, He worked in Poland, Finland, Ireland and on
Guernsey. He has been a driver, a bartender, a security guard and
an interpreter to finally abandon a flourishing career in finance
and devote himself to writing. The passion for fantasy, steampunk
and science-fiction was instilled in him during countless hours of
RPG sessions held for many years with his friends, in which he most
frequently assumed the role of the game-master.
     
    Thanks to his versatile knowledge, experience and imagination
his stories take a breathtaking pace and unexpected twists while
putting the fundamental values in question. Written with a rich
language and thought through in every detail, they also allow to
explore the meanders of the psyche of the complex characters. For
lovers of fantasy they are a must-read, but they are sure to charm
even a reader, who has never before opted for this particular
genre.
     
    Privately, he is an avid gamer and a great lover of
literature. If time permits he loves to watch soccer, basketball
and American football, especially looking on the Minnesota
Timberwolves and the Green Bay Packers.

IN PREPARATION:
     
     
    TALES OF THE ION CONTINENTS:
    • Ballroom
    • Roadhouse
    • Mountain Pass
    • Shipwrecked
    • Night Cap
    • Headlong
    • Deep Woods
Against All Odds
     
     
    WILHELM MOLL CHRONICLES:
    • Singer's Machine
    • (Extra)Ordinary Circumstances
     
     
    OTHER:
    • AOXD
    • First Blood