Alchemised
AlchemisedSen Lin Yu
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Alchemised (2025)

Sen Lin Yu

Others: Leaning negative

« In English: What is it you think you're protecting in that brain of yours? The war is over. Holdfast is dead. The Eternal Flame extinguished. There's no one left for you to save. Once a promising alchemist, Helena Marino is now a prisoner - of war and of her own mind. Her Resistance friends and allies have been brutally murdered, her abilities suppressed, and the world she knew destroyed. In the aftermath of a long war, Paladia's new ruling class of corrupt guild families, and depraved necromancers, whose vile undead creatures helped bring about their victory, holds Helena captive. According to Resistance records, she was a healer of little importance within their ranks. But Helena has inexplicable memory loss of the months leading up to her capture, making her enemies wonder: Is she truly as insignificant as she appears, or are her lost memories hiding some vital piece of the Resistance's final gambit? To uncover the memories buried deep within her mind, Helena is sent to the High Reeve, one of the most powerful and ruthless necromancers in this new world. Trapped on his crumbling estate, Helena's fight-to protect her lost history and to preserve the last remaining shreds of her former self-is just beginning. For her prison and captor have secrets of their own... secrets Helena must unearth, whatever the cost. En Français: La guerre est finie. Que croyez-vous protéger dans votre cerveau ? Holdfast est mort. La Flamme éternelle s'est éteinte. Il ne vous reste plus personne à sauver... » Helena Marino était une alchimiste prometteuse. Aujourd'hui, elle n'est plus qu'une prisonnière, captive de la guerre qui a ravagé Paladia et de sa propre mémoire défaillante. Ses amis et alliés de la résistance ont été massacrés, ses pouvoirs neutralisés, et le monde qu'elle connaissait n'est plus qu'un champ de ruines. Dans l'après-guerre, Paladia est tombée sous le contrôle de guildes corrompues et de nécromanciens dépravés, dont les créatures mortes-vivantes ont assuré le triomphe. Helena est désormais entre leurs mains. Officiellement, elle n'était qu'une guérisseuse sans importance. Pourtant, les mois qui ont précédé sa capture se sont effacés de sa mémoire, et cette zone d'ombre intrigue. Est-elle vraiment aussi insignifiante qu'on le prétend, ou détient-elle, sans le savoir, la clé du dernier espoir de la résistance? Pour découvrir la vérité, elle est confiée au Haut Préfet, l'un des nécromanciens les plus redoutés du nouveau régime. Cloîtrée dans son domaine, Helena doit se battre pour préserver les bribes de son identité et raviver la mémoire de celle qu'elle était. Mais son geôlier, comme le lieu qui l'entoure, dissimule des secrets bien plus sombres encore... que Helena devra percer, quel qu'en soit le prix.

ISBN:
9780241714331
Length:
976 pages

Genres: fantasy, romance

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