About Brian Ruckley: Brian Ruckley is a Scottish fantasy writer. He is the author of The Godless World trilogy: Winterbirth, Bloodheir, and Fall of Thanes.
Loss alone is but the wounding of a heart; it is memory that makes it our ruin.
When a man may whisper in a close ear, and that whisper be repeated far away and many moons later, then he has power. When a many may speak against another, and that other be brought to ruin and rue by nothing more than those words, then he has power...
Power loves not the light of day, nor the attention of curious eyes. In darkness it thrives most...A lord may send his army hither and thither, but the true testing of his power is in those places where his army is not...Has he sent its long fingers ...
