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Lucien has always been able to spin a bad situation to his advantage. From his childhood on the dangerous streets of Shadycreek Run to his years living off the grid and learning blood magic from the Claret Orders, the charismatic blood hunter will find a way to get the upper hand. When Lucien is on a job in the frozen wastelands of Eiselcross with his fellow mercenaries, a rough-and-tumble crew called the Tombtakers, fate leads him to a mysterious journal in the ruins of an ancient city. The book speaks of the Somnovem, nine beings who can grant Lucien power beyond imagining.

As the youngest Battle Prince, Lucien D'Jacques is discouraged because the affinities with weapons that his siblings have shown aren't showing up in him. Being half-Mutah, that little something extra should be a given, but he's no better than the average Normal soldier. Meanwhile, the Damaged are back and slowly taking over. After receiving word that neighboring compounds are suffering, Lucien is tapped by his parents, Yulen and Atty, the Battle Lord and Lady of Alta Novis, to accompany them on a rescue mission to Green River.

Three generations have passed since the whispers of demons first spread across the lips of man. Since that first fateful night above Oakenfall, a kingdom has fallen, a god has died, and the streets have begun to pile with bodies, but nothing that Oakenfall has experienced so far can prepare it for what will befall it as Lucien returns from his travels. What started as a routine investigation of a haunted village, an easy task for a Mage Hunter like Lucien, sends him on a voyage that will see him set against old enemies of Oakenfall.

In a time of pandemics and disease, the ailing world finds itself on its knees, desperate for the cure promised by leading geneticist Dr. Lucien Sabara. With his simple EVE-0 treatment, he seemingly offers an answer to the world's prayers. Though as Gabrielle and Chris learn, the geneticist's true agenda is to play God over humankind, forcing women to require medical intervention to conceive, allowing Lucien to edit unborn embryos in order to create a better race, a more equal race, a more evolved race.

Delve into the mind of Critical Role’s most charming villain in this original novel that chronicles Lucien’s early life and his fateful meeting with the Mighty Nein. Lucien has always been able to spin a bad situation to his advantage. From his childhood on the dangerous streets of...

When a team of scientists discovers the deadly consequences of a human gene they dub “the evolution gene", they quickly realize that the human race is on the brink of extinction. As pandemic after pandemic ravages the world, symptomatic of the looming eradication of all humankind, this team heads to the Amazon for one last chance to save humanity.

When Mara found herself captured by a gang of vampires, she feared the worst. She felt it was a random kidnapping, and so she fully expected to end up as a meal but she had no idea that she was chosen. She was chosen by handsome Vampire Prince Lucien but Mara had no idea why. Is it for her blood? For her fertility? Information? Mara was about to discover the real answer was more important than she could have ever imagined.

Lucien, auteur prolifique du IIe siècle apr. J.-C., est né à Samosate, aux confins orientaux de l'Empire romain. Dans les "Histoires vraies", un de ses ouvrages les plus célèbres, il invite le lecteur à un voyage extraordinaire sur la Lune, dans le ventre d'une baleine, sur une île peuplée des grands héros du passé et sur des récifs défendus par des monstres effrayants. Entre fantaisie et pastiche des grandes références littéraires et mythologiques, on peut voir dans les "Histoires vraies" le premier récit de science-fiction de la littérature occidentale.

Six friends maneuver learning the Lancer System and a story involving mechs, clandestine intergovernmental organizations, and twisting political schemes, playing as a very dysfunctional group of Lancers. General warnings for: Violence, Death, Drug Use