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The Shape of What Was Done - Softcover

Woolacott, Henry

 
9798246115176: The Shape of What Was Done

Synopsis

For centuries, wizards and orcs have lived in wary separation. When goblin forces begin to move across the eastern territories with an unfamiliar discipline, old divisions are set aside in the face of a shared threat.

What follows is not the war the alliance expected.

Battles are limited. Victories are careful. Losses are contained and explained away. Over time, the conflict grows quieter and its logic more persuasive than its violence. Decisions once argued become obvious. Resistance gives way to consensus. This account is written years later by a man who helped shape those decisions.

Recounting councils, campaigns, and moments of uneasy restraint, he reflects on a war that refused heroism and concluded without spectacle. Yet as the narrative unfolds, so too does a troubling question: what is preserved when a war is ended cleanly - and what is quietly removed?

Atmospheric and morally incisive, The Shape of What Was Done is an epic fantasy concerned less with conquest than with consequence, and with the unsettling possibility that peace, pursued carefully enough, can become something else entirely.

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