![]() Which is why, at age fourteen, Orrec decides to wear a blindfold. Indeed, it may not even be as well controlled as that. ![]() Orrec seems to have inherited perhaps the nastiest gift of all: the ability to “unmake” anything he points at with his eye, his hand, and his will. Other families’ gifts include turning people blind or deaf, twisting their limbs, enslaving their minds, and afflicting them with a slow wasting death. One family’s gift is calling to animals, which can be helpful when you’re training a horse or a dog, but is oftener used to deadly effect-in the hunt. And the most powerful among them, honored with the title Brantor, wield terrible powers. The land-owning families that lead them are divided by vicious feuds. The farmers and serfs scratch an uneasy living out of indifferent soil. ![]() Life is harsh in the northern uplands where Orrec Caspro grows up. ![]()
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