{"id":6483,"date":"2019-05-20T16:53:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T20:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/?p=6483"},"modified":"2019-05-20T16:53:32","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T20:53:32","slug":"hanta-the-sacrificial-pharaonic-oarsbearer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2019\/hanta-the-sacrificial-pharaonic-oarsbearer","title":{"rendered":"Hanta, the Sacrificial Pharaonic Oarsbearer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The World of Names writhes with living promises, the words of Namedealers plying the whims and vanities of the mighty forces of nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Hanta has made a promise to enter the Waters of the Underworld. To most, that would be a simple condemnation to death. And Hanta is fairly certain that for her, it is, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What matter, the splendor worn on the body if they are worn only to enter the Waters of the Underworld?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As she rows downstream, dressed in the splendrous ceremonial regalia of an escort of the Pharaohs, she broods on her fate, bound she is by a complex knot of long-held promises \u2014 a knot pulled tight by generations of treaties spun by the priests, astrologers, and magicians of Misr with the river; with the Sky that covers it with its unblinking eyes; with the towns and ports that seed its shores with life; with vassal kings and heroes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Losing hope, she accepts the offer of the young, pretty courtesan Tinkari for companionship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…and to uncover what transpires between them, you will need to read Hugo-nominated author <\/em>Mimi Mondal<\/em><\/a>\u2019s tale, detailed in the pages of the upcoming <\/em>Bloody-Handed Name of Bronze<\/em><\/b>! Of course, like all of my work, you will be able to see it first as a patron of my work at my <\/em>Patreon<\/em><\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Modular systems are a function of industrial society. But do people of The Fifth World still know how to agree to standards? With their acute interest in efficiency, I think they might have carried that lesson forward!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The World of Names writhes with living promises, the words of Namedealers plying the whims and vanities of the mighty forces of nature. But Hanta has made a promise to enter the Waters of the Underworld. To most, that would be a simple condemnation to death. And Hanta is fairly certain that for her, it … Continue reading “Hanta, the Sacrificial Pharaonic Oarsbearer”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":6486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[78,194,161],"class_list":["post-6483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-set-of-all-sets-that-do-not-include-themselves","tag-bloody-handed-name-of-bronze","tag-hanta","tag-world-of-names"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6487,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6483\/revisions\/6487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}