The first novel Hands of the Emperor follows Cliopher as he organizes a holiday for his emperor, learns more about him and his other friends from the palace, grapples with living his culture in the court and sees his life in the capital and in his home province clash. He has toed the line in a court that is not of his beloved culture and with rules of etiquette that are sometimes impossibly strict – and who now finally feels ready to reach out to his emperor himself, the Lord-Magus of the world, the Sun on Earth, Artorin Damara, who is worshipped as a god. The series tells the story of Cliopher Mdang (Kip to his sprawling family), secretary to the emperor, head of the civil service and unofficial head of the government, who has spent half his life in the civil service, rebuilding the empire after a magic catastrophe and slowly working on creating a better world. The Hands of the Emperor is the first book of Victoria Goddard’s Lay of the Hearth-fire series.
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