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"The Shadow of the Black Wings" is the first volume in James Calbraith's "The Year of the Dragon" saga:
** "The Shadow of the Black Wings"
** "The Warrior's Soul"
** "The Islands In the Mists"
** "The Rising Tide"
** "The Shadow of the Black Wings"
** "The Warrior's Soul"
** "The Islands In the Mists"
** "The Rising Tide"
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** "The
!!!Two of four planned books have been published as of September 2012:
# ''The Shadow of the Black
** "The
# ''The Warrior's
** "The
# ''The Islands In the
** "The
# ''The Rising
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"The Shadow of the Black Wings" is the first volume in James Calbraith's "The Year of the Dragon" saga. The other two are "The Warrior's Soul" and "The Islands In the Mists".
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"The Shadow of the Black Wings" is the first volume in James Calbraith's "The Year of the Dragon" saga. The other two are saga:
** "The Shadow of the Black Wings"
** "The Warrior'sSoul" and Soul"
** "The Islands In theMists".Mists"
** "The Rising Tide"
** "The Shadow of the Black Wings"
** "The Warrior's
** "The Islands In the
** "The Rising Tide"
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* TheThingThatGoesDoink: Subverted, as the shishi-odoshi in Sato's garden is actually silent.
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* TheThingThatGoesDoink: Subverted, as the shishi-odoshi in Sato's garden is actually silent.
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* ABoyAndHisX: In this case, dragon. Emyrs is often reffered to as a 'pet' and 'child's toy' that Bran is too found of to replace with a bigger/stronger/faster etc, breed.
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* ABoyAndHisX: In this case, dragon. Emyrs Emrys is often reffered to as a 'pet' and 'child's toy' that Bran is too found of to replace with a bigger/stronger/faster etc, breed.
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--> ''An ancient empire stands on the brink of civil war.''The Dracaland was always at war somewhere with somebody; it was its way and purpose.''
--->''His arrival may push it over the edge.''
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* SpontaneousWeaponCreation: Soul Lance, the weapon of the dragon riders.
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* ImpoverishedPatrician: Sato's family is a samurai family and well known for its style of swordcraft and magic but has fallen on hard times since their grandfather lost the emperor's favor.
* ItRunsInTheFamily: For Bran's, it's wanderlust. For Sato's it's magical talent and getting in trouble with the capital.
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* HeroesWantRedheads: Bran's original love interest. Also, Nagomi (hinted at).
* ImpoverishedPatrician: Sato's family is a samurai family and well known for its style of swordcraft and magic but has fallen on hard times since their grandfather lost the emperor's favor.
* ItRunsInTheFamily: For Bran's, it's wanderlust. For Sato's it's magical talent and getting in trouble with the capital.
* ImpoverishedPatrician: Sato's family is a samurai family and well known for its style of swordcraft and magic but has fallen on hard times since their grandfather lost the emperor's favor.
* ItRunsInTheFamily: For Bran's, it's wanderlust. For Sato's it's magical talent and getting in trouble with the capital.
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* HighAltitudeBattle: Bran fighting the Dracolich. All battles of the Royal Marines Dragon Corps.
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* HighAltitudeBattle: Bran fighting the Dracolich.{{Dracolich}}. All battles of the Royal Marines Dragon Corps.
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* TheWatson: During the trip to Qin Bran asks questions about the places and events so [[Mr.Exposition Dylan has an opportunity to explain them.]]
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* TheWatson: During the trip to Qin Bran asks questions about the places and events so [[Mr.Exposition [[MrExposition Dylan has an opportunity to explain them.]]
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Downplayed with dragons. They can be tamed for a few years but all of them inevitably go feral. Dylan has been injured because he didn't replace on in time.
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Downplayed with dragons. They can be tamed for a few years but all of them inevitably go feral. Dylan's has been injured because he didn't replace on in time.
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** Deuteragonist: Reducing his role further, he's absent and/or OutOfFocus in the latter part of the narrative while Sato and Nagomi share center stage.
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** Deutrongist: Reducing his role further, he's absent and/or OutOfFocus in the latter part of the narrative while Sato and Nagomi share center stage.
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** Deutrongist: Deuteragonist: Reducing his role further, he's absent and/or OutOfFocus in the latter part of the narrative while Sato and Nagomi share center stage.
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* ABoyAndHisDog: In this case, dragon. Emyrs is often reffered to as a 'pet' and 'child's toy' that Bran is too found of to replace with a bigger/stronger/faster etc, breed.
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A detailed and fast-paced historical fantasy based around the turbulent opening of Japan to the West in the middle of the 19th century. Being a FantasyCounterpartCulture, the names are different. Japan is "Yamato", China is "Qin", the British Empire is the Dracolish Empire and so on.
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A detailed and fast-paced historical fantasy based around the turbulent opening of Japan to the West in the middle of the 19th century. Being a FantasyCounterpartCulture, the names are different. Japan is "Yamato", China is "Qin", the British Empire is the Dracolish Dracaland Empire and so on.
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* ABoyAndHisDog: In this case, dragon. Emyrs is often reffered to as a 'pet' and 'child's toy' that bran Bran is too found of to replace with a bigger/stronger/faster etc, breed.
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* DragonRider: Bran and many others. Dylan is a commander in Dracoland's Dracaland's Dragon Rider division.
** A Qin saboteur is hinting "a cause older than the rebels or the court".
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* ForScience: Sato's dad what's his name is aware that his research will likely never be published or accepted because of his disgraced family name. He continues to sate his own academic curiousity.
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** Yamato, more or less, is still this at the start. Only the Bahtaavains know how to cross the Divine Winds and even they can only go to Dejima. Aside from a few Dracolands Dracaland officers, the rest of the world doesn't know it exists. The main conflict of the series is whether Yamato should stay this or open completely.
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* PuppyDogEyes: Nagomi's father didn't like how his daughter frequently brought 'stays' to their client clinic because it was bad for business. She shined her 'doe eyes' on him and he reserved part of the clinic for them.
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A detailed and fast-paced historical fantasy based around the turbulent opening of Japan to the West in the middle of the 19th century, "The Shadow of the Black Wings" is the first volume in James Calbraith's "The Year of the Dragon" saga.
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A detailed and fast-paced historical fantasy based around the turbulent opening of Japan to the West in the middle of the 19th century, century. Being a FantasyCounterpartCulture, the names are different. Japan is "Yamato", China is "Qin", the British Empire is the Dracolish Empire and so on.
"The Shadow of the Black Wings" is the first volume in James Calbraith's "The Year of the Dragon"saga.saga. The other two are "The Warrior's Soul" and "The Islands In the Mists".
"The Shadow of the Black Wings" is the first volume in James Calbraith's "The Year of the Dragon"
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His arrival may push it over the edge.''
His arrival may push it over the edge.''
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His arrival may push it over the edge.war.''
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His arrival may push it over the edge.
--->''His arrival may push it over the edge.''
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His arrival maybe a skilled magician, but I cannot imagine giving up push it over the feeling of hot wind in my hair or the smell of the sea.edge.''
His arrival may
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--> ''I may be a skilled magician, but I cannot imagine giving up the feeling of hot wind in my hair or the smell of the sea.''
It is the sixteenth year of Queen Victoria's enlightened rule and the world trembles before the might of her ironclad navy and the dreaded Dragon Corps. The largest ship ever built sails from the Brigstow Harbour on a journey to the mysterious lands of Orient. Its load - a regiment of the Royal Marines and one Bran ap Dylan - freshly graduate in Dracology at the Llambed Academy of Mystic Arts.
In the empire of Yamato, sealed from the rest of the world for the last two centuries, a wizard's daughter Sato witnesses her father joining an anti-government conspiracy. Her friend Nagomi, training to be a priestess, is haunted by dark visions that she must keep secret. Neither of them is aware that a change is coming to Yamato... on the wings of a dragon.
A detailed and fast-paced historical fantasy based around the turbulent opening of Japan to the West in the middle of the 19th century, "The Shadow of the Black Wings" is the first volume in James Calbraith's "The Year of the Dragon" saga.
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!! The following tropes
*ABoyAndHisDog: In this case, dragon. Emyrs is often reffered to as a 'pet' and 'child's toy' that bran is too found of to replace with a bigger/stronger/faster etc, breed.
*AntiMagic: Old people are resistant to magic and the older they are the stronger the resistance. This is because magic is based on 'potential' as in 'potential energy' and younger people have more of it.
*AlwaysChaoticEvil: Downplayed with dragons. They can be tamed for a few years but all of them inevitably go feral. Dylan's has been injured because he didn't replace on in time.
*BaitAndSwitch: Nagomi's introduction has her complaining about the raining and walking in the mud and other things that can make one think she's a spoiled noble girl who joined the clergy for some selfish reason. Then her group's porter is injured and without hesitation she kneels in the mud to heal him despite knowing it will be a thankless job and the onlookers will scorn her for her hair color.
*BlessedWithSuck: If you find you can use every kind of elemental magic with equal skill then congratulations! You're a once-a-generation prodigy who will no doubt become famous! You'll also die before your thirties because the conflicting elements will tear you apart.
*BloodMagic: Alluded to in a custom made gaunlet but not seen just yet.
*BigBad: Zigzagged. While Nariakira schemes like a big bad and has the ambitions of a big bad, he only has one scene in the first book.
*DragonRider: Bran and many others. Dylan is a commander in Dracoland's Dragon Rider division.
*ElementalPowers: Its possible for anyone to learn them but every mage has to make due with a 'innate speciality' for one or another. Sato, for instance, is an Ice/water Innate. While she can cast fire magic too it is weaker, less versaile, and more exhausting.
*EstablishingCharacterMoment: Frequently
**Bran's academy test
**Nagomi's first healing
** Nariakira ChessMaster manuvering
**etc
*EvilPlan: Averted. The closest thing the first book has to ' devious scheme plotted by a villain' is Dylan trying to replace his son's pet dragon with one more suitable for a professional dragon rider. This is something ''all'' dragon riders have to do eventually and all of Bran's generation has already done it.
*ForgetsToEat: Sato cooks dinner for her dad and it often goes cold because he's too busy with an experiment.
*ForScience: Sato's dad what's his name is aware that his research will likely never be published or accepted because of his disgraced family name. He continues to sate his own academic curiousity.
*GoneHorriblyRight: Pre-series, mages raised the dead and used them as weapons of war. They were so successfull no one could tell the undead from the truly living. It made everyone paranoid.
*ImpoverishedPatrician: Sato's family is a samurai family and well known for its style of swordcraft and magic but has fallen on hard times since their grandfather lost the emperor's favor.
*ItRunsInTheFamily: For Bran's, it's wanderlust. For Sato's it's magical talent and getting in trouble with the capital
*HealingHands: A standard priestess power.
*HeirToTheDojo: Sato considers herself this. Her father considers her this. Misc other people note that she has the skill to be this. Being a girl, however, means she legally can't be this.
*HiddenElfVillage: Two.
**Qin was this pre-series but it has since been discovered, exploited, and decayed as a result.
**Yamato, more or less, is still this at the start. Only the Bahtaavains know how to cross the Divine Winds and even they can only go to Dejima. Aside from a few Dracolands officers, the rest of the world doesn't know it exists. The main conflict of the series is whether Yamato should stay this or open completely.
*JerkJock: Wulfhere.
*LargeHam: Sato can act the part because she's a fan of the theater.
*MagicAIsMagicA: How magic works and the differences between Eastern and Western styles are often [[DiscussedTrope discussed]] and plot points. Sato teaches a class on it and her dad researches it.
*{{Miko}}: Nagomi is one in training. In the first book she's on the verge of moving into the shrine to work full time.
*NoEnding: The first book just stops.
*NotSoDifferent: Bran sees the Orient and especially Yamato as 'exotic' and wonderous etc while Sato holds the same wonder and awe of the world outside Yamato. For extra points, her fasincation is centered on a freshman textbook from Bran's country college; both of which he found to be stifling and boring.
*PuppyDogEyes: Nagomi's father didn't like how his daughter frequently brought 'stays' to their client because it was bad for business. She shined her 'doe eyes' on him and he reserved part of the clinic for them.
*{{Samurai}}: They range from spoiled brats, to a noble-minded girl, to an out-of-work interperter who hangs onto his swords to prove he's not entirely destitute.
*{{Seer}}: Another priestess power.
*SpoiledBrat: Keinosuke, who beacuse his dad's a samurai, thinks he's above everyone else and can order his teacher's head cut off despite the fact that she is also from a samurai lineage.
*SweetPollyOliver: Sato is a weird case: She dresses like a boy down to binding her breasts and her dad refers to her as his son but apparently everyone from her students to the local government knows she's a girl.
*SceneryPorn: Everything from the college, to the country, to the city, to the warship to the shrine is lavishly described.
*SupportingProtagonist: Bran is the one the story follows after the third chapter or so he's just watching his Dad be awesome.
**Deutrongist: Reducing his role further, he's absent and/or OutOfFocus in the latter part of the narrative while Sato and Nagomi share center stage.
*TranslatorMicrobes: Averted. There is no 'universal translator' spell. If you want to talk to someone of another language, learn that language or find an interperter.
*WalkingTheEarth: Bran, his father, and his grandfather joined the navy to see the world.
*YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Nagomi's hair is amber red and can shift to other hues depending on factors such as her mood or the weather. Because of this, most people see her as bad luck.
--> ''I may be a skilled magician, but I cannot imagine giving up the feeling of hot wind in my hair or the smell of the sea.''
It is the sixteenth year of Queen Victoria's enlightened rule and the world trembles before the might of her ironclad navy and the dreaded Dragon Corps. The largest ship ever built sails from the Brigstow Harbour on a journey to the mysterious lands of Orient. Its load - a regiment of the Royal Marines and one Bran ap Dylan - freshly graduate in Dracology at the Llambed Academy of Mystic Arts.
In the empire of Yamato, sealed from the rest of the world for the last two centuries, a wizard's daughter Sato witnesses her father joining an anti-government conspiracy. Her friend Nagomi, training to be a priestess, is haunted by dark visions that she must keep secret. Neither of them is aware that a change is coming to Yamato... on the wings of a dragon.
A detailed and fast-paced historical fantasy based around the turbulent opening of Japan to the West in the middle of the 19th century, "The Shadow of the Black Wings" is the first volume in James Calbraith's "The Year of the Dragon" saga.
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!! The following tropes
*ABoyAndHisDog: In this case, dragon. Emyrs is often reffered to as a 'pet' and 'child's toy' that bran is too found of to replace with a bigger/stronger/faster etc, breed.
*AntiMagic: Old people are resistant to magic and the older they are the stronger the resistance. This is because magic is based on 'potential' as in 'potential energy' and younger people have more of it.
*AlwaysChaoticEvil: Downplayed with dragons. They can be tamed for a few years but all of them inevitably go feral. Dylan's has been injured because he didn't replace on in time.
*BaitAndSwitch: Nagomi's introduction has her complaining about the raining and walking in the mud and other things that can make one think she's a spoiled noble girl who joined the clergy for some selfish reason. Then her group's porter is injured and without hesitation she kneels in the mud to heal him despite knowing it will be a thankless job and the onlookers will scorn her for her hair color.
*BlessedWithSuck: If you find you can use every kind of elemental magic with equal skill then congratulations! You're a once-a-generation prodigy who will no doubt become famous! You'll also die before your thirties because the conflicting elements will tear you apart.
*BloodMagic: Alluded to in a custom made gaunlet but not seen just yet.
*BigBad: Zigzagged. While Nariakira schemes like a big bad and has the ambitions of a big bad, he only has one scene in the first book.
*DragonRider: Bran and many others. Dylan is a commander in Dracoland's Dragon Rider division.
*ElementalPowers: Its possible for anyone to learn them but every mage has to make due with a 'innate speciality' for one or another. Sato, for instance, is an Ice/water Innate. While she can cast fire magic too it is weaker, less versaile, and more exhausting.
*EstablishingCharacterMoment: Frequently
**Bran's academy test
**Nagomi's first healing
** Nariakira ChessMaster manuvering
**etc
*EvilPlan: Averted. The closest thing the first book has to ' devious scheme plotted by a villain' is Dylan trying to replace his son's pet dragon with one more suitable for a professional dragon rider. This is something ''all'' dragon riders have to do eventually and all of Bran's generation has already done it.
*ForgetsToEat: Sato cooks dinner for her dad and it often goes cold because he's too busy with an experiment.
*ForScience: Sato's dad what's his name is aware that his research will likely never be published or accepted because of his disgraced family name. He continues to sate his own academic curiousity.
*GoneHorriblyRight: Pre-series, mages raised the dead and used them as weapons of war. They were so successfull no one could tell the undead from the truly living. It made everyone paranoid.
*ImpoverishedPatrician: Sato's family is a samurai family and well known for its style of swordcraft and magic but has fallen on hard times since their grandfather lost the emperor's favor.
*ItRunsInTheFamily: For Bran's, it's wanderlust. For Sato's it's magical talent and getting in trouble with the capital
*HealingHands: A standard priestess power.
*HeirToTheDojo: Sato considers herself this. Her father considers her this. Misc other people note that she has the skill to be this. Being a girl, however, means she legally can't be this.
*HiddenElfVillage: Two.
**Qin was this pre-series but it has since been discovered, exploited, and decayed as a result.
**Yamato, more or less, is still this at the start. Only the Bahtaavains know how to cross the Divine Winds and even they can only go to Dejima. Aside from a few Dracolands officers, the rest of the world doesn't know it exists. The main conflict of the series is whether Yamato should stay this or open completely.
*JerkJock: Wulfhere.
*LargeHam: Sato can act the part because she's a fan of the theater.
*MagicAIsMagicA: How magic works and the differences between Eastern and Western styles are often [[DiscussedTrope discussed]] and plot points. Sato teaches a class on it and her dad researches it.
*{{Miko}}: Nagomi is one in training. In the first book she's on the verge of moving into the shrine to work full time.
*NoEnding: The first book just stops.
*NotSoDifferent: Bran sees the Orient and especially Yamato as 'exotic' and wonderous etc while Sato holds the same wonder and awe of the world outside Yamato. For extra points, her fasincation is centered on a freshman textbook from Bran's country college; both of which he found to be stifling and boring.
*PuppyDogEyes: Nagomi's father didn't like how his daughter frequently brought 'stays' to their client because it was bad for business. She shined her 'doe eyes' on him and he reserved part of the clinic for them.
*{{Samurai}}: They range from spoiled brats, to a noble-minded girl, to an out-of-work interperter who hangs onto his swords to prove he's not entirely destitute.
*{{Seer}}: Another priestess power.
*SpoiledBrat: Keinosuke, who beacuse his dad's a samurai, thinks he's above everyone else and can order his teacher's head cut off despite the fact that she is also from a samurai lineage.
*SweetPollyOliver: Sato is a weird case: She dresses like a boy down to binding her breasts and her dad refers to her as his son but apparently everyone from her students to the local government knows she's a girl.
*SceneryPorn: Everything from the college, to the country, to the city, to the warship to the shrine is lavishly described.
*SupportingProtagonist: Bran is the one the story follows after the third chapter or so he's just watching his Dad be awesome.
**Deutrongist: Reducing his role further, he's absent and/or OutOfFocus in the latter part of the narrative while Sato and Nagomi share center stage.
*TranslatorMicrobes: Averted. There is no 'universal translator' spell. If you want to talk to someone of another language, learn that language or find an interperter.
*WalkingTheEarth: Bran, his father, and his grandfather joined the navy to see the world.
*YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Nagomi's hair is amber red and can shift to other hues depending on factors such as her mood or the weather. Because of this, most people see her as bad luck.
