Ergebnis für "Drachen" in Alternative Geschichte

Ein epischer Fantasyroman über Macht, Verrat und Magie in einer alternativen Renaissance. Der Stadtstaat Navola ist auf Handel gebaut. Die Paläste und Türme sind dem Reichtum ihrer Kaufleute entsprungen. Gehandelt wird mit allem: Gerste und Reis, Flachs und Wolle, Eisen und Silber, Waffen, Armeen und Menschenleben. Und über allem thront die Bank der di Regulai. Mit List, Gewalt und ihrem unerschöpflichen Vermögen verkörpert sie eine Weltmacht: Kaufleute bitten um ihre Unterstützung, Künstler um ihre Gunst, Fürsten um eine Einladung zu ihrer Tafel.

Tex falls into a chasm and wakes up in a primitive land. Armed with a rifle and the skills of a bushman, he struggles to survive against pterodactyls and demonic barbarians. But when he meets beautiful primeval women who need his help, life in the stone age suddenly doesn't seem so bad. Tex vows to protect them and build a tribe. But that won’t be so easy. The immortal Necromancer of Darkoveld is spreading his forces across the land.

As the renowned granddaughter of Isabella Camherst, Audrey Camherst has always known she, too, would want to make her scholarly mark upon a chosen field of study. When Lord Gleinheigh recruits Audrey to decipher a series of ancient tablets holding the secrets of the ancient Draconean civilization, she has no idea that her research will plunge her into an intricate conspiracy, one meant to incite rebellion and invoke war.

Post-Roman Britain. Thousands of desperate Saxon refugees are flooding the island, fleeing their homelands as the whole world warms and the waters rise, and worse, the mighty dragon Cythraul from the once-frozen North has been awoken by an evil sorceress. His lust for human flesh is insatiable, and he threatens to extinguish all human life.

The legends of giants have been whispered across time, their tales of unimaginable strength and fiery rage woven into the myths of humanity. But in the frozen peaks of the Hindu Kush, one such legend has awakened—a red-haired monstrosity, larger and more fearsome than any creature the world has ever known. Fueled by an ancient curse and an insatiable hunger, it threatens to raze everything in its path.

A menace from generations past and an all-too modern antagonist threaten to attract the attention of a new kaiju with unprecedented catastrophic power… unless Reggie and Ben can team up with a celebrity psychic and two mysterious, improbable harbingers at the literal middle of nowhere to save the day, their sanity, and the world!

Earth was old, her riches gone. Her children too had left her, all but a few who lived peacefully off the land. And then came the Kar-Chee, to crack Earth open and suck out what remained of her richness, threatening the twilight of the old planet with an evil beyond anything that had gone before. With them they brought their servants, beasts so cruel and horrible that men could recall their like only from ancestral nightmares, and named them "dragons"....

In the frozen peaks of the Ural Mountains, a long-dormant rage awakens. When whispers of destruction reach Koda, the mystical protector of nature, he embarks on a perilous journey to confront a shadow from his past: the Yeti. Decades ago, this once-noble guardian was captured, broken, and twisted by human cruelty. Its escape led to the tragedy at Dyatlov Pass, and now, its fury threatens to consume the mountain itself. Koda must navigate a world scarred by secrets and pain, facing brutal elements, ancient spirits, and the Yeti's unmatched ferocity.

In this weird western short story, a goblin gets help from an unlikely source to become the richest person west of the Mississippi, but a bigger creature has its canines set on the same goal.