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This first volume of Stories of Metamor City gathers 10 short reports and novellas from the Parsec Award-winning Metamor City Podcast. Enter a gritty urban scenery of mages and vampires, faeries and telepaths, where street-level spies grab arcane artifacts from power-hungry sorcerers and holy warriors stalk demons through the shadowy depths of 1 1,000-foot-high towers. Thirteen century back, the conquering wizard, Nasoj, cast three great spells on the folks of Metamor Keep. Fueled by the power of the dark gods, these spells would irrevocably change the castle's defenders in body and soul, making them helpless against his improving armies. Things did not work out as he hoped. The spells were countered, but only partially. They wove alongside the castle's own magic, learning to be a curse that blanketed the entire valley. But Nasoj's forces were driven back again, and the Keep's heroic inhabitants discovered to take pleasure in the new varieties the curse possessed given them: a mark of how deeply the dark wizard feared them. Now, the world rests on the cusp of the 21st hundred years, and things have changed more than anyone would have dreamed. Buildings the size of mountains rise above the valley floor. People walk and skimmers drive on suspended walkways a huge selection of meters in the air. Magic and technology work hand-in-hand to do the impossible. Majestrix Kyia, the heart of the historic Keep, now rules with calmness and justice over an Empire that covers half of a continent. But there's always darkness, even in a place as shiny as Metamor City. The rich grow ever richer, while the poor struggle in the hardscrabble world of THE ROAD, ornamented by menacing gangs equipped with guns, kitchen knives, and unlicensed magic. Vampires control a shadow government that feeds the city's illicit hungers, while a mystical collective of psychics pursues their own inscrutable ends. It is a world on the knife's border between order and chaos, creation, and devastation.
