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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Qualidar" data-source="post: 2926233" data-attributes="member: 13388">I know that most of this thread is old, but in case anyone is still reading this: I love these books. I picked them up over the weekend and am cramming to run a one shot in a couple of weeks. For people thinking of buying these, but are on the fence, here are some of the things I love (based on reading just a chapter and a half, and a lot of skimming):I love the potential for intrigue: spies, political maneuvering, witch cults and puritan spies.I love the positive vibe of the setting: slavery largely wiped out and a pseudo-nation of Cimaroon freedom fighters, native americans as true keepers of the earth who seem to have the magical power to hold back the excesses of colonialism.I love the "sense of wonder" (can I use that phrase without getting the thread locked? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> ): I'm picturing massive stone ruins overgrown by the forests, remnants of the time of the giants and repositories of ancient secrets, far up unexplored rivers. I love the potential for swashbuckling fun: buccaneers, rakes, rapiers and muskets.I love the potential for horror: unexplored primeval forests brooding over isolated colonial villages, witches and puritan zealots, headless horsemen, animated scarecrows, new orleans' vampires and voodoo priests.Finally, I love the details, for instance the Albians: Servants of the Faerie Queen Gloriana (child of Queen Elizabeth and Oberon). There's tons of great stuff like that.~Qualidar~</blockquote>

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