Introduction
Welcome to the world of Daverana and the Godwar. I know that some of you are familiar with my work and others might not be yet. I hope that what you read here will encourage you to seek out my works, meet my characters, and journey with them for a time.
When the previous Godwar ended, the gods of the new pantheon of light set about cleaning up the mess. They brought in settlers from the distant worlds of their birth, some with familiar technologies and magics and other with far different. Their settlers were drawn from among thousands of tiny fragments of cultures, individuals who called out to them in moments of dire need and the fragments were forced to merge in order to survive, creating complex hybrid cultures. However, these gods and their legions did not get all the dark creatures and there are still uncleansed continents sealed off across the seas. Two continents are slowly being settled, Merezia and Jedrua; a third has been opend, Ursarius; Sealandia has been taken as the god Willodarus’ private preserve for his sylvans; but there are nine continents in all. The Chimquar stories are set on the continent of Merezia, which is the most settled of them. Dark things creep out.
The Sharani are by far my favorite race. They are a genetic and magical mutation that requires three parents to produce viable offspring and, for that reason, form triadic marriages: sire, bloodmother and wombmother. The women are ferocious fighters and devout paladins struggling against the servants of the hellgod, Bellocar.
I eliminated the feminine endings on words (priest instead of priestess) except when necessary to show cultural differences. And I developed an independent set of neuter words. Among the Sharani, when you put the gender on words (whether male or female) it makes the word a diminutive or an intimate pronoun.
Janrae Frank
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