The Price of Magic is just a few days away, so we’re looking at the many characters in the book. Most have appeared in previous books. I’m not going to tell you what happens to them in The Price of Magic, but if you haven’t read the earlier Senta books, Spoiler Alert.

Sam Croffut appears for the first time in The Price of Magic, but he is the nephew of Amoz Croffut.  Amoz appeared in Book 2: The Dark and Forbidding Land, Book 3: The Drache Girl, and had a fairly large part in Book 5: The Two Dragons, when he traveled to the distant lizzie city of Tsahloose with Senta and Radley Staff.

Sam, like Philo Mostow, is a young man likely to be found at the trendiest parties in Port Dechantagne, and at least occasionally dates Talli Archer.  Sam is also a member of the Port Dechantagne militia.

New powers are rising in Birmisia. Far to the south, the strange lizardmen of Xiatooq are making themselves known. Closer to home, the new lizzie city Yessonarah finds itself rich in gold—gold the humans covet. As tensions rise, many in Port Dechantagne seem eager to teach the lizzies a lesson in humility. Fourteen year old Iolana Staff finds herself in the center of it all, as she is pulled between her conscience and the conventions of society. Unconcerned with the conflict between human and lizzie, sorceress Senta Bly prepares for her own war, unaware that events will pull her into a life and death confrontation with an old enemy.

The Price of Magic is the latest in a series that chronicles a world of steam power and rifles, where magic has not yet been forgotten. A new colony in a distant lost world has grown from a tiny outpost to a center of civilization in a vast wilderness. The Price of Magic continues a story of adventure and magic, religion and prejudice, steam engines and dinosaurs, angels and lizardmen, machine guns and wizards, sorceresses, bustles and corsets, steam-powered computers, hot air balloons, and dragons. It is available now for preorder wherever fine ebooks are sold.

The Price of Magic is just a week away, so we’re looking at the many characters in the book. Most have appeared in previous books. I’m not going to tell you what happens to them in The Price of Magic, but if you haven’t read the earlier Senta books, Spoiler Alert.

Talli Archer first appeared in The Sorceress and her Lovers.  She was a perpetual shadow to Sherree Glieberman, both of them coming from very religious Kafirite families.  By The Price of Magic, Talli has apparently grown into her nose a bit, and is a bit prettier than she was a few years ago.  She might not be so much  Sherree’s shadow anymore, probably because of Sherree’s romantic interests.

New powers are rising in Birmisia. Far to the south, the strange lizardmen of Xiatooq are making themselves known. Closer to home, the new lizzie city Yessonarah finds itself rich in gold—gold the humans covet. As tensions rise, many in Port Dechantagne seem eager to teach the lizzies a lesson in humility. Fourteen year old Iolana Staff finds herself in the center of it all, as she is pulled between her conscience and the conventions of society. Unconcerned with the conflict between human and lizzie, sorceress Senta Bly prepares for her own war, unaware that events will pull her into a life and death confrontation with an old enemy.

The Price of Magic is the latest in a series that chronicles a world of steam power and rifles, where magic has not yet been forgotten. A new colony in a distant lost world has grown from a tiny outpost to a center of civilization in a vast wilderness. The Price of Magic continues a story of adventure and magic, religion and prejudice, steam engines and dinosaurs, angels and lizardmen, machine guns and wizards, sorceresses, bustles and corsets, steam-powered computers, hot air balloons, and dragons. It is available now for preorder wherever fine ebooks are sold.

The Price of Magic is just a couple of weeks away, so we’re looking at the many characters in the book. Most have appeared in previous books. I’m not going to tell you what happens to them in The Price of Magic, but if you haven’t read the earlier Senta books, Spoiler Alert.

Philo Mostow is a character appearing for the first time in The Price of Magic.  He has a relatively small but important part to play in the story.  Philo is a young man, tall and thin.  He’s a part of the “in crowd” of Port Dechantange youth, dating Questa Hardt and calling on Iolana Staff.

New powers are rising in Birmisia. Far to the south, the strange lizardmen of Xiatooq are making themselves known. Closer to home, the new lizzie city Yessonarah finds itself rich in gold—gold the humans covet. As tensions rise, many in Port Dechantagne seem eager to teach the lizzies a lesson in humility. Fourteen year old Iolana Staff finds herself in the center of it all, as she is pulled between her conscience and the conventions of society. Unconcerned with the conflict between human and lizzie, sorceress Senta Bly prepares for her own war, unaware that events will pull her into a life and death confrontation with an old enemy.

The Price of Magic is the latest in a series that chronicles a world of steam power and rifles, where magic has not yet been forgotten. A new colony in a distant lost world has grown from a tiny outpost to a center of civilization in a vast wilderness. The Price of Magic continues a story of adventure and magic, religion and prejudice, steam engines and dinosaurs, angels and lizardmen, machine guns and wizards, sorceresses, bustles and corsets, steam-powered computers, hot air balloons, and dragons. It is available now for preorder wherever fine ebooks are sold.

The Price of Magic is just a couple of weeks away, so it’s time to start looking at the many characters in the book. Most have appeared in previous books. I’m not going to tell you what happens to them in The Price of Magic, but if you haven’t read the earlier Senta books, Spoiler Alert.

The Stephenson family lives nearest to the Dechantagnes and Staffs.  They are also probably closest to them in status, being old money.  Claude and Julian Stephenson have made several brief appearances in Book 2: The Dark and Forbidding Land and Book 3: The Drache Girl.  They are mentioned a few other times, being the closest friends of Augie Dechantagne.  Their older brother Tiber makes his first appearance in The Price of Magic, and he plays a fairly important role in several chapters.

The Price of Magic is just a couple of weeks away, so it’s time to start looking at the many characters in the book. Most have appeared in previous books. I’m not going to tell you what happens to them in The Price of Magic, but if you haven’t read the earlier Senta books, Spoiler Alert.

Didrika and Ernst Goose are Senta’s cousins.  We first saw them in Book 0: Brechalon and in Book 1: The Voyage of the Minotaur as babies.  In The Price of Magic we get to meet them as young women.  They are, in fact, two of the most popular young women in Birmisia.

The Price of Magic is just a couple of weeks away, so it’s time to start looking at the many characters in the book. Most have appeared in previous books. I’m not going to tell you what happens to them in The Price of Magic, but if you haven’t read the earlier Senta books, Spoiler Alert.

Geert is Senta’s cousin.  We first meet him in Book 0: Brechalon, where he is selling apples to earn money for the family.  We see him again in Book 1: The Voyage of the Minotaur, but they are separated when Granny, their guardian, dies.  Geert shows up again in Book 5: The Two Dragons, when he and his brother arrive in Birmisia to start a printing business.  At last, Senta has nearby family.

Honor McCoort, nee Hertling, is an important citizen of Port Dechantagne since its founding.  We find her in Book 1: The Voyage of the Minotaur, a pillar of the community and city council member.  She is present in Book 2: The Dark and Forbidding Land, Book 3: The Drache Girl, and Book 4: The Young Sorceress, as she raises her two siblings, Senta’s friends Hero and Hertzal.  She meets young Geert in Book 5: The Two Dragons, where she plays a big part in Yuah’s story, but suffers a horrible accident.  We learn in Book 6: The Sorceress and her Lovers that the two have married, and we see them again in The Price of Magic.

The Price of Magic is just a couple of weeks away, so it’s time to start looking at the many characters in the book. Most have appeared in previous books. I’m not going to tell you what happens to them in The Price of Magic, but if you haven’t read the earlier Senta books, Spoiler Alert.

Bernice is Senta’s cousin, the oldest of the bunch.  We see her briefly in Book 0: Brechalon, and Book 1: The Voyage of the Minotaur, where we learn that she is marrying Tait Vishmornan, after Granny’s death.  He was a supervisor at the shirtwaist factory where she worked, and they adopted Ernst and Didrika, two other cousins, but had no room apparently for Senta.

In Book 6: The Sorceress and her Lovers, we learn second hand that the couple and their children have relocated to Birmisia, but we don’t actually see them.  But in The Price of Magic, we at last see Bertice again, and her husband for the first time.