The Chronicles of Nemus Tales Hildur Greikar

'A beautiful stained-glass window onto a living, vibrant world.' >*** Nemus is a vast world. And I, Hildur of Greikar, have wandered almost through it whole.From my native fjord in icy Skallagaard to the melancholic cities of the Old Empire in the Eastern Continent. From the wide prairies of Oxania to the colony of Azatgrad, where the world ceases to be civilized.I have seen many things. Some of them quite mundane, others unusual and even extraordinary. I have met all kinds of characters: bold and craven, mean and kind, generous and tight-fisted; each of them the protagonist of their own tales.So sit with me by this cozy fire. Allow the magic of words to heave your sails towards the very edges of Nemus. *** 'The Tales of Hildur of Greikar' is a collection of 18 self-contained stories set in the world of Nemus. Each of the stories focuses on a different region and is written to cover a multitude of genres, from a retelling of a fairy tale to a ghost story, a pulp event, or a Marco Polo-style travel novel. Nemus is a structured and coherent fantasy world, notable for being inspired not by a universe of medieval knights, but by the world that emerged immediately after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, our Dark Ages. This is what happens when Beowulf, the Arthurian cycle, and Byzantine conspiracies are mixed with a hint of Middle-earth and the Lovecraftian circle.