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The Hands of the Emperor is the first book of Victoria Goddard's Lay of the Hearth-fire series.
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. 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 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.
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. 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 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.
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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. He has toed the line in a court that is not of his beloved culture and with rules of etiquette that are sometimes impossibly
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** The emperor's parents had a child each year for as long as the could (Artorin was born in the third year of their marriage, his sister Melissa ten years later) and except for these two, not one survived their first hundred days.
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** The emperor's parents had a child each year for as long as the they could (Artorin was born in the third year of their marriage, his sister Melissa ten years later) and except for these two, not one survived their first hundred days.
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* BadassBureaucrat: Cliopher Mdang: he is the bureaucrat of bureaucrats, absolutely incorruptible, clever, compassionate and diligent. He made the civil service more inclusive, dismantled a millennia-old-ruling-system to build a better one in the wake of a world-spanning catastrophe, brokered peace and practically eradicated poverty.
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* BadassBureaucrat: Cliopher Mdang: he is the bureaucrat of bureaucrats, absolutely incorruptible, clever, compassionate and diligent. He made the civil service more inclusive, dismantled a millennia-old-ruling-system millennia-old government-system to build a better one in the wake of a world-spanning catastrophe, brokered peace and practically eradicated poverty.
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* BallroomBlitz: "That party", when the folk heroes of the Red Company crashed the engagement party of Grand Duchess Melissa and her cousin and heir-to-the-throne Shallyr.
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* ToughLeaderFacade: Artorin is the perfect emperor to all the world, unapproachable, someone who never shows emotions – or indeed has any except for mild benevolence – strictly follows the exhaustive protocols and rituals and practices schooled magic. On the inside he yearns for human contact, loves to use wild magic and would love to show emotions, such as joke.
--> '''His Radiancy the last emperor''' ''to his closest friends'': "Do you really believe I have all the emotional range of a ''statue''? - You do, don' t you? You truly believe I am as serene as the ritual words suggest. (...) The trouble with pretending to have no emotions beyond a vague benevolence is that after a while, you start to believe yourself. But that I do not display my emotions does not mean I don't have them. Oh, no, it does not indeed. Benevolent I think I can generally claim to be, but calm, disinterested, and serene I am ''not''."
--> '''His Radiancy the last emperor''' ''to his closest friends'': "Do you really believe I have all the emotional range of a ''statue''? - You do, don' t you? You truly believe I am as serene as the ritual words suggest. (...) The trouble with pretending to have no emotions beyond a vague benevolence is that after a while, you start to believe yourself. But that I do not display my emotions does not mean I don't have them. Oh, no, it does not indeed. Benevolent I think I can generally claim to be, but calm, disinterested, and serene I am ''not''."
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* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: Artorin is the perfect emperor to all the world, unapproachable, someone who never shows emotions – or indeed has any except for mild benevolence – strictly follows the exhaustive protocols and rituals and practices schooled magic. On the inside he yearns for human contact, loves to use wild magic and would love to show emotions, such as joke.
--> '''His Radiancy the last emperor''' ''to his closest friends'': "Do you really believe I have all the emotional range of a ''statue''? - You do, don' t you? You truly believe I am as serene as the ritual words suggest. (...) The trouble with pretending to have no emotions beyond a vague benebolence is that after a while, you start to believe yourself. But that I do not display my emotions does not mean I don't have them. Oh, no, it does not indeed. Benevolent I think I can generally claim to be, but calm, disinterested, and serene I am ''not''."
--> '''His Radiancy the last emperor''' ''to his closest friends'': "Do you really believe I have all the emotional range of a ''statue''? - You do, don' t you? You truly believe I am as serene as the ritual words suggest. (...) The trouble with pretending to have no emotions beyond a vague benebolence is that after a while, you start to believe yourself. But that I do not display my emotions does not mean I don't have them. Oh, no, it does not indeed. Benevolent I think I can generally claim to be, but calm, disinterested, and serene I am ''not''."
