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Passages of lyrical sciencefantasy and a god’s musings on philosophy and human behaviour are interspersed with Eolo’s dangerous attempts to solve the mystery of a disappeared religious leader. The Raven Tower tells two stories in parallel: that of an ancient god who has observed the world around it and quietly gathered knowledge for millennia, and that of Eolo, a young rural soldier thrown unhappily into a courtly conspiracy in the modern day.

But language is a tricky tool for making magic, and any claim about the truth places a god in potential danger. Humans have given the gods language, and the ability to act on the world by speaking their desires into being. Any prodigy of nature – be it a meteorite or a recurring swarm of insects – can take on awareness and power if given enough attention.

For the people of Iraden, faith in the gods is a highly transactional and complex affair.