There's so little magic that it's always winter and people are starving, there are human sacrifices as a matter of course, and the rulers are nearly always violent sociopaths. Crapsack World: White London has been doing very badly ever since Black London went under and Red London slammed their interdimensional doors shut.Burning the Ships: The Sea Serpent raiders do this immediately before they attack a ship, signifying that they don't need it since they'll soon have yours.Book Ends: Both the first chapter of A Darker Shade of Magic and the last chapter of A Conjuring of Light start with Kell's coat.Blood Magic: Antari magic is more powerful than other types of magic, but requires the caster to spill some of their own blood.And Holland has them, when Osaron takes him over completely. At the fall of Black London, this was interpreted as being a sign of their corruption, leading to mass killings. Black Eyes of Evil: A mark of being Antari is having one completely black eye.Bad Powers, Bad People: Athos Dane is The Dreaded in part for his prodigious talent for magical mind control and in part for his sadistic love of destroying people with it.Another Dimension: The premise of the series is the fact there are 4 Londons Kell travels between.Amplifier Artifact: A magical stone imbued with dark magic is a Plot Device.Adopted into Royalty: Kell was adopted by the Mareshs, the royal family of Red London, because they wanted to turn his Antari powers to their service.But then someone pushes a mysterious black stone on him. Kell secretly smuggles objects between the worlds, thinking it a harmless sideline to his real business of maintaining political ties between the different royal families. And Black London is forbidden, after a terrible magical cataclysm that killed everyone there. White London is so drained of magic its people are slowly starving to death. Red London, ruled by the Maresh dynasty and Kell's adopted parents, is full of magic.
The series itself focuses on the antics and life of Kell, who is part of a dwindling species called Antari, who have the power to travel between dimensions, each having a separate London. The first issue was published on Octoa bind-up of all issues was released in February 2019. There is also a prequel comic series called Shades of Magic: The Steel Prince which follows Kell and Rhy's father Maxim as a young man. A sequel trilogy to Shades of Magic called Threads of Power was announced, and its first installment will be published in 2019. The first book was released on February 24, 2015. Shades of Magic is a fantasy trilogy by V.
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