Video Thursday: What’s in the Box? Edition

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Maxim offers Chloe a box, and asks her to keep the artifact inside safe. She holds up the necklace inside and wonders “what has he gotten me into now?” Their relationship isn’t built on grand gestures. It’s built on trust forged while fighting monsters side by side. A romantic moment from Undead Flight, Book 2 of the Hunter Healer King trilogy. Which, by the way, is on sale now as part of Hans G. Schantz’s Spring Book Sale!

The Empire of Noricum In Hunter Healer King: Where Monsters Walk and Airships Fly

Imagine 19th century Budapest, but with airships overhead, monsters in the shadows, and an elected emperor who’s mostly a figurehead.

Welcome to Noricum, the sprawling empire where the Hunter Healer King trilogy takes place. It’s a land of steam-powered innovation and ancient bloodlines, where Dr. Maxim os Storm hunts algomancers through gaslit streets and Chloe Fortebat discovers that the “Old World” is far stranger than she ever imagined.

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Video Thursday: Vampires on an Airship Edition

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Maxim and Chloe face a blood-drinking leech, a horrifying monster created by the most dangerous type of dark sorcerer. Inspired by a scene from Undead Flight, Book 2 of the Hunter Healer King trilogy.

Lupomancers: The Werewolf Sorcerers of Hunter Healer King

Not All Werewolves Are Created Equal

In the world of the Hunter Healer King trilogy, lupomancers are shapeshifting sorcerers who can magically mark living people, transforming them into werewolves who must obey their commands. And the lupomancers themselves? They’re algomancers: dark sorcerers who feed on pain and fear, who can take wolf form at will.

This is the threat Chloe Fortebat faces in Wolf’s Trail. This is why she needs Dr. Maxim os Storm, one of the few hunters who knows how to break a lupomancer’s mark before it’s too late.

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The Fall of Thule and The Rise of the Stormcrows: The Atlantis Myth in Hunter Healer King

Three thousand years ago, the most advanced civilization in the world sank beneath the waves in a single night.

A handful of massive airships escaped, carrying the survivors who would become the Stormcrows. This is the tragedy that shaped Dr. Maxim os Storm’s people, and the reason they hunt monsters with ancient technology and unyielding determination.

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Video Tuesday: Wonder Horse Edition

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Dr. Maxim os Storm can talk to animals telepathically, a gift of his Stormcrow bloodline. Here he rides Scrimshaw, Chloe’s fierce white stallion, in a vignette inspired by Wolf’s Trail, Book 1 of the Hunter Healer King trilogy. The Stormcrows are descended from survivors of a fallen Atlantis, and their abilities make them formidable monster hunters.