At first, the protagonists seem obvious the Ben-Elim are the angels, bringers of light, while the brutal Kadoshim are the harbingers of darkness and death.īut not everything is so black and white. In the Banished Lands, angels and demons wage war against one another in a landscape heavily inspired by Paradise Lost. Plenty of books deal with the celestial versus the demonic. Here’s a primer on the Banished Lands, its conflicted human occupants, and the forces of light and darkness determined to claim the world. His books, set in the Banished Lands, sweep masterfully from bloody battlefields to fraught personal dilemmas, which culminate in tense, explosive climaxes. And John Gwynne is no stranger to either conflict. Often, the best heroic fantasy is both intimate and epic, whether our hero is triumphing over inner demons – or the ones rampaging across the countryside.
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