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At the end of the second book in Heidi Heilig’s Shadow Players trilogy, the Aquitans were stripped of control of their former colony of Chakrana. The people oppressed by colonial rule should be reveling in their sudden freedom, but with the murderous necromancer Le Trépas using blood magic to manipulate the living and the dead, things are about to get much worse. Le Roi Fou, the “mad king” of Aquitan, is not happy about losing a big source of his income and will take whatever exploited resources he can grab, even when those resources are people. Raik, the Boy King, would rather be a pu...

At the end of the second book in Heidi Heilig’s Shadow Players trilogy, the Aquitans were stripped of control of their former colony of Chakrana. The people oppressed by colonial rule should be reveling in their sudden freedom, but with the murderous necromancer Le Trépas using blood magic to manipulate the living and the dead, things are about to get much worse. Le Roi Fou, the “mad king” of Aquitan, is not happy about losing a big source of his income and will take whatever exploited resources he can grab, even when those resources are people. Raik, the Boy King, would rather be a pu...

Egypt's past prepares for its future as the pharaohs parade to a new home A lavish procession saw 22 Ancient Egyptian mummies move to Egypt's new National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation The mummies are inspected, just before the procession Credit: Getty If you were scrolling through your phone or the TV channels on Saturday night, you may have stumbled into one of those now-rare broadcast moments which covers something other than the present sea of tiring headlines about Covid, vaccines and lockdown. You may even have witnessed a news event that resembled a dispatch from the Before Times. A ...

DocuTime Film Festival will feature the 2019 doc “Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice” at UNCW’s Curbside Cinema drive-in this Saturday. (Port City Daily/Wikipedia) WILMINGTON — DocuTime Film Festival has been a one-day celebration of the documentary art form since Paula Haller began the tradition locally in 2003. Though in normal years the festival screens upward of a dozen flicks — a mixture of shorts and features, Oscar nominees, foreign and animated films, among others — the novel coronavirus is changing things a bit in 2021. DocuTime will screen one feature, “Linda Rons...

Studying the Whipping Boy Concept: Truth or Myth? The history of the whipping boys - although generally accepted as true - is largely clouded in mystery as scholars were unable to prove it for a very long time. The story of a whipping boy is certainly a story of injustice and mistreatment, and a great insight into the skewed social hierarchy of the early and late medieval period.     At the time, young boys from the upper echelons, be they kings, heirs, princes, highborn nobles, or monarchs of any type, often had whipping boys by their side. These children would be educated alongside the...