The Caldera (officially The Brotherband Chronicles: The Caldera) is the seventh book in the Brotherband series. It was released on November 21, 2017.
Blurb[]
In Hallasholm, Stig is contesting the annual Maktig competition to decide Skandia’s greatest warrior. But a late-night knock on the door brings someone Stig never expected to see again, along with a request the Herons are hard-pressed to refuse: a rescue mission of epic proportions.
Across the ocean, the southern city-state of Byzantos is plagued by a crew of pirates who’ve kidnapped the son of Empress Justinaunder the command of a wicked monster of a man named Myrgos. Slipping out of Hallasholm under the cover of darkness, the brotherband sets sail to recover the boy from his kidnappers, heading south to the island of Santorillos where a near-impenetrable fortress stands atop a cliff, surrounded by a lagoon—a caldera—formed by the crater of a volcano and a pully system to get to the top.
In this explosive seventh book in the action-packed Brotherband Chronicles, the Herons battle pirates amid stormy seas as the fate of an empire rests on their shoulders.
Setting[]
Byzantos: “The harbor at Byzantos was huge—many times larger than any port Hal had ever seen. They crossed the Golden Reach, the large waterway that ran north from the Constant Sea to Byzantos, separating the western landmass from the eastern, and sailed through the harbor entrance”[1]
- Historically, it appears to parallel the capital of the Byzantine empire:
“Byzantos had been founded many years previously, when the Toscan empire had become too large and unwieldy to be controlled and ruled by one city. Accordingly, Toscana had split into east and west empires, with the western empire seated in the original capital, Toscana, and the eastern empire centered on the new city of Byzantos. Its laws, traditions, language, religion and military organization were the same as those of the original empire. But whereas Toscana was old and corrupt and increasingly vulnerable to invasion from the north, Byzantos was new and energetic and well protected by its natural position, surrounded on three sides by water and secure behind high, thick walls built by its founding emperor, Constantus.”[2]
- From the text, Byzantos appears to reflect historical Constantinople, located on the Black Sea. However, by calling Byzantos a city-state, historical Greece also springs to mind
- Island of Cypra appears to resemble the island of Cyprus, at least given the location described in the text.
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