The Cry of the Icemark (2005) (edit title/settings)

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• Thirrin Strong-in-the-arm Lindenshield: The main character. She has physical prowess. Often compared to her deceased mother.
• Red Rought -strong -in- the- arm - Lindenshield: Thirrin's dad and King of Icemark.
• Gishmark: King of werewolves
• Oskan: A warlock.
• Scipio Bellorum: A brilliant general of the opposing army of the Empire.
• King Grishmak: King of the Wolfpeople
• Olememnon: Consort (Mate with no real political power) of the Basilier of the Hypolitan (Part of the Icemark). Uncle to Theron.
• Maggie: Scholar and historian originating from the southern continent.
• Tharaman: Ruler of the Hub of the World and an ice leopard.
• Grimswald: King's personal man servant.
• Maggiore Totus: Thirrin's teacher. A scientist.
• Jenny: Oskan Witch's Son's mule. Often dressed with bright ear warmers and other cloths.
• Elemnestra: Basilier of the Hypolitan army, and leader of the Hypolitan. Holds the political power as it is passed down from mother to daughter, versus father to son.
• White Annis: A kind white witch of the Icemark.
• Lady Theowin: Add a description of this character.
• Primplepuss: Primplepuss is King Redrought of the Icemark's little kitten, who hides in his beard all the time.
• Grinelda
• Madam
• Baroness
• Warlock
• Wenlock Witchmother
• Aurelius
• Holly King

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• “If you dare to try to leave me behind, I'll follow you on foot, and when I die in the snow, I'll come back and haunt you. I'll make your life a complete misery. No ghost will ever have been as inventive in its nastiness as I'll be: I'll turn your food rancid; I'll transform your drink into blood; I'll howl and moan throughout the night; there'll be no place safe from me. And don't think i couldn't do it, Thirrin, Queen of the Icemark, because I can assure you, I could.”

  Oskan to Thirrin

• “Humans inhabit almost every part of the world. I'm told we speak different languages, have different coloured skins, and we believe in many different gods. But in one way we are nearly all the same. We fight wars, we want power and wealth, and we want to dominate anything we see around us. We are truly terrible and terrifying if you only knew it.”

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• Madness was a handicap only if you couldn’t control its irrationalities.

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• Oskan noticed that the terrible warlike figure of Redrought Strong-in-the-Arm Lindenshield, Bear of the North, Drinker of Blood, was still wearing his fluffy slippers and that Primplepuss the kitten was peeping out of his shirt collar to see what all the noise was about.

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• He might be King Redrought Strong-in-the-Arm Lindenshield, Bear of the North, Defender of the Realm, Descendant of Thor, but to Thirrin he was just Dad, a man with a fondness for cats, a taste for comfy slippers, and a huge laugh that could dent pewter at fifty paces.

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• Take happiness where and when you find it, because there’s going to be precious little of it

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• Only fools skirmish in their backyard when war is knocking down their front door.

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• “I sometimes think it’s too much of a risk to rely on someone else so much for your happiness,” Thirrin went on. “But without sharing at least some of your life, everything else seems less worthwhile, less valuable somehow.” “The risk is worth it, Thirrin. Even when fate calls your bluff and you lose them, the risk’s worth it.”

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• The slavery of your independence is at an end, and the freedom of your servitude to the Empire has begun.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• The land of the dead
• The Hub of the world
• Icemark
• Hypolitan
• Frostmarris
• Great Hall
• Taradan
• High Table
• Great Road
• Basilea
• Empire
• Great Forest
• Inglesby

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Followed by Blade of Fire.

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1. Stuart Hill (Author)

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