Emmett Swan

Cadaver Swords Emmett Swan

Peace is for the living. A vast story charged with electricity, action and necromancy, with morally realistic, lovable characters. -Reedsy Discovery Chimber was a master grave digger and knew his business. But when the Queen of the nation of Dalmeer called out the Gravedigger's Guild to bury thousands of citizens that had perished from a mysterious poison-laced cloud, he was not prepared for what he found. Before his very eyes, bodies thought dead began to rise up, walk, and huddle together in dark groups. Soon, an unstoppable cadaver army was laying waste to the land. With the good people of Dalmeer under siege and the army in disarray, Chimber wants to do his part to defend his home town. But as a gravedigger, he isn't usually needed until after the killing is done. As he watches a battle unfold from the cover of a nearby hill, an unflappable female warrior gets felled from her horse by a mob of cadavers. Risking life and limb, he slides down to the battlefield and manages to save her life. Chimber and the warrior establish a bond and agree to journey into the Northern Wastes to find the one being that may be able to save the nation-the mysterious Medium of the Blue Mountain. But she is surrounded by a strange tribe of female ice pixies that have little interest in helping those from the southern lands. If Chimber can convince the Medium of the Blue Mountain to join their cause and return to Dalmeer's capital city in time, they just may save the people of the land from the bite of cadaver swords.