Transformation by Carol Berg
I have seen this book for years. Picked it up-the cover features an attractive yet tragically conflictedcreature with human features and large wings, kneeling on the edge of a cliff con templating life and perhaps thinking to jump? Yet the back of the book about slavery and kingdoms and lost powers and demons did not interest me in the least and so I consistently passed this book by. Well, I have been reading quite a bit of fantasy lately and decided to give this book a least an attempted reading. I really, really liked it.
Seyonne is a slave. His people were once very holy people who fought against demons and in there zest to not have a demon come to live in their own souls they had all kinds of strange and zealous laws that if people defied caused them to be shunned. One of the laws is against being taken as a slave-makes one unclean-so even if you were to be freed from slavery or to escape slavery you still could never go home for fear of being unclean.
Seyonne is one of the last pf his people-the "chosen" people who battle demons for innocents the souls of innocents. His people-the Ezzarrians-were wiped out by the Derhzi-a race of Roman like people who are slowly but surely conquering all peoples and either enslaving those they capture or killing them out right. When an Ezzarrian is made a slave he goes through a procedure that strips him/her of their magic. So, they are destined to live as ordinary people-magicless. Seyonne has somehow accustomed himself to this existence-it has been 16 years since he fought the Derzhi in a battle for his homeland and lost-when he purchased by Aleksander-the crown prince of Derzhi and Seyonne sees the light of destiny within his soul. What follows is amazing.
The story definetely has ties to present religions and their myths. The Derzhi are defintely the Romans of history-mighty, intelligent, conqureing and destined to fail and lose everything they have conquered. The Ezaarrians are definetely the Jews of old-tradition bound, tightly knit community apart from others, helping the world as part of their "chosen" path but not really apart of it. Seyonne could arguably be the Christ figure in the novels? Baptized by fire, his suffering horrendous and repetitive, yet he is human and makes many mistakes and misjugdements and miscalculations. Excellent novel.
~~~~Where ever you go, There you are!
Seyonne is a slave. His people were once very holy people who fought against demons and in there zest to not have a demon come to live in their own souls they had all kinds of strange and zealous laws that if people defied caused them to be shunned. One of the laws is against being taken as a slave-makes one unclean-so even if you were to be freed from slavery or to escape slavery you still could never go home for fear of being unclean.
Seyonne is one of the last pf his people-the "chosen" people who battle demons for innocents the souls of innocents. His people-the Ezzarrians-were wiped out by the Derhzi-a race of Roman like people who are slowly but surely conquering all peoples and either enslaving those they capture or killing them out right. When an Ezzarrian is made a slave he goes through a procedure that strips him/her of their magic. So, they are destined to live as ordinary people-magicless. Seyonne has somehow accustomed himself to this existence-it has been 16 years since he fought the Derzhi in a battle for his homeland and lost-when he purchased by Aleksander-the crown prince of Derzhi and Seyonne sees the light of destiny within his soul. What follows is amazing.
The story definetely has ties to present religions and their myths. The Derzhi are defintely the Romans of history-mighty, intelligent, conqureing and destined to fail and lose everything they have conquered. The Ezaarrians are definetely the Jews of old-tradition bound, tightly knit community apart from others, helping the world as part of their "chosen" path but not really apart of it. Seyonne could arguably be the Christ figure in the novels? Baptized by fire, his suffering horrendous and repetitive, yet he is human and makes many mistakes and misjugdements and miscalculations. Excellent novel.
~~~~Where ever you go, There you are!
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