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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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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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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In the Hunter Healer King trilogy, “monster hunting” doesn’t just mean tracking werewolves and zombies. It means hunting the sorcerers who create them.

Algomancers are humans who bargained with evil forces to receive magical power. In exchange, they became psychic vampires who must feed on the pain and fear of others to survive. They command undead servants, transform people into monsters, and manipulate emotions like weapons. And when you see the words “monster hunting” in the context of this setting, “monster” means the algomancer as much as the creatures they control.

These are not sympathetic people. They target innocent children and animals, anyone beautiful or vulnerable, because innocence amplifies their power. They create suffering for sustenance. They are the reason Dr. Maxim os Storm carries a banishing dagger inscribed with ancient runes, and a revolver full of silver bullets.

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