Meet the Characters: Hunted by the Sky

May 12, 2021 | 10:00 AM

Meet the Characters: Hunted by the Sky

By Team Fierce Reads
Meet the Characters: Hunted by the Sky
Welcome to the kingdom of Ambar, where girls with star-shaped birthmarks have been disappearing for years. Learn all about the Wrath of Ambar duology by Tanaz Bhathena, a medieval India-inspired fantasy filled with warrior girls, hidden magic, and a whole lot of revenge. 

Meet the characters of Hunted by the Sky and the upcoming Rising Like a Storm

Art credit: Aishwarya Tandon

GUL Age: 16 blue moons Occupation: serving girl (killer-in-disguise) at the queen’s palace at Ambar Fort Magical status/abilities: Magus / whisper magic (telepathically communicating with animals) and death magic (magic used in battle) Favorite weapon: green seaglass daggers shaped like shadowlynx horns In the kingdom of Ambar, girls with star-shaped birthmarks are disappearing. Prophesied to be the downfall of tyrant king Lohar, they are hunted by the king’s soldiers and imprisoned in labor camps where they are drained of magic. Born with a star-shaped birthmark, Gul, too, has been hunted by the king since birth. When her parents are brutally murdered by the king’s soldiers, Gul escapes and is taken in by the Sisters of the Golden Lotus, a group of rebel women, who train her in death magic. When she turns sixteen, she infiltrates the king’s palace at Ambar Fort, with only one thing in mind: revenge. buy cialis generic yourcialisrx.com over the counter CAVAS Age: 17 blue moons Occupation: stable boy at Ambar Fort Magical status/abilities: Non-magus (Or is he?) Cavas lives in the tenements, part of a social class that is oppressed and abused by Ambar’s magi majority. His sole aim is to stay invisible and out of trouble—even if he does, on occasion, illegally sell palace secrets to buy medicine for his terminally ill father. Things take a turn when Cavas meets a mysterious girl (Gul) at the capital’s bazaar and gets entangled in her revenge plot, discovering a magic he never expected to find.   

The Sisters of the Golden Lotus

Art credit: Aishwarya Tandon

JUHI Age: 40 blue moons Occupation: leader of the Sisterhood of the Golden Lotus Magical status/abilities: Magus / scrying (seeing the future) with cowrie shells, wiping out memories, minor healing spells, and death magic Favorite weapon: Samudra split-whip (a long bendable sword) A powerful magus, Juhi was formerly a princess of the southern kingdom of Samudra and was married to Ambar’s tyrant king Lohar. After faking her death to escape the palace, she rescues a pair of girls (Amira and Kali) from a nearby labor camp and forms the Sisterhood of the Golden Lotus—a rebel group striving to bring down the king and protect the marked girls he hunts.  buy black cialis generic yourcialisrx.com over the counter AMIRA Age: 19 blue moons Occupation: adjutant of the Sisterhood of the Golden Lotus and Gul’s trainer Magical status/abilities: Magus/death magic Favorite weapon: atashban (deadly magical crossbow) Sold into slavery and then to a labor camp by cruel family members, Amira is eventually rescued by Juhi and becomes one of her most loyal aides. Immensely powerful and toughened by her life experiences, Amira despises (and secretly envies) Gul for her powers, even as she tries to train her in the art of death magic.  KALI  Age: 19 blue moons Occupation: adjutant of the Sisterhood of the Golden Lotus Magical status/abilities: Magus/truth seeking and death magic Favourite weapon: Daggers with rose-tipped hilts  Kali (pronounced “Kuh-lee” like the flower bud, and not “Kaa-lee” like the goddess) was hunted for her birthmark and imprisoned in one of King Lohar’s labor camps with Amira. Sweet to all—expect the girls whose hearts she breaks—Kali’s cool disposition often balances out Amira and Gul’s more fiery tempers.   buy cialis professional generic yourcialisrx.com over the counter   Exploring identity, class struggles, and high-stakes romance, Tanaz Bhathena's Hunted by the Sky is a gripping adventure set in a world inspired by medieval India. Gul has spent her life running. She has a star-shaped birthmark on her arm, and in the kingdom of Ambar, girls with such birthmarks have been disappearing for years. Gul’s mark is what caused her parents’ murder at the hand of King Lohar’s ruthless soldiers and forced her into hiding to protect her own life. So when a group of rebel women called the Sisters of the Golden Lotus rescue her, take her in, and train her in warrior magic, Gul wants only one thing: revenge. Cavas lives in the tenements, and he’s just about ready to sign his life over to the king’s army. His father is terminally ill, and Cavas will do anything to save him. But sparks fly when he meets a mysterious girl—Gul—in the capital’s bazaar, and as the chemistry between them undeniably grows, he becomes entangled in a mission of vengeance—and discovers a magic he never expected to find. Dangerous circumstances have brought Gul and Cavas together at the king’s domain in Ambar Fort...a world with secrets deadlier than their own.

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