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<p>For two hundred years, the Silver Duke ruled York. Now, the Silver Duke is dead. Long live the Silver Duke!</p> <p>Avery is the new Duke of York, a single man in possession of a good fortune. Like his illustrious great-great-grandfather, Avery is tall, handsome, silver-skinned, and has certain unnatural powers most unlike ordinary industrial necromancy or the other conventional (if less practical) forms of wizardry.</p> <p>Though, York being a particularly backwards duchy within the realm of the increasingly-inattentive Emperor Ivar the Fleshless, it has shockingly little necroindustrial development – and its only wizard collegium does not count a single archmage among its ranks. The old Silver Duke had little tolerance for wizards and little interest in issuing peasant-hunting licenses to promote regular harvests of the duchy's human resources.</p> <p>Will Avery betray his ancestor's memory? Can an underdeveloped York with little industry stand its ground against its neighbors? And, as a single man in possession of a good fortune, will he marry? These are all matters of grave political importance.</p> <p>Conventional wisdom prescribes conventional wizardry and conventional marriage.</p> <p>Cover art by A. A. Medina | Fabled Beast Design.</p>
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