Shadow of the Swan

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Canonical title

Shadow of the Swan

Original publication date

1981-07

People/Characters

Patric Eyre Ballarat; Jan Barret (Commander); Adrien Camine Eliseer; Mathis Daro Galinin (First Lord of the House of Daro Galinin, Chairman of the Directorate); Avery Gilcris (lector emeritus, Academicians GuildMaster); Bruno Hawkwood (show all 15); Erica Radek (Council member of the Society of the Phoenix); Andreas Riis; Karlis Selasis; Orin Badir Selasis; Valentin Severin (Val); Tsane Valstaad; Predis Ussher; Alexand DeKoven Woolf (Alex Ransom); Richard DeKoven Woolf (Richard Lamb)

First words

PHOENIX MEMFILES: DEPT HUMAN SCIENCES: BASIC SCHOOL (HS/BS)
SUBFILE: LECTURE, BASIC SCHOOL 1 FEBUAR 3252
                   ... (show all)          GUEST LECTURER: RICHARD LAMB
                             SUBJECT: POST-DISASTERS HISTORY:
                             WARS OF CONFEDERATION (2876 - 2903)
DOC LOC #819/219-1253/1812-1648-123252

The "Sudafrikan Union" was the Holy Confederation's term.

Quotations

Ballarat and Tsane met in those exotic surroundings in the wake of the first battle of what both knew would be a desperately fought campaign and played a game of chess.

It sounds like the fancy of a romantically incli... (show all)ned historian, except that the event was so well documented; there are even photograms of that fateful game, but they're all rather fuzzy since they were taken from outside the neutral zone.

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Before the actual signing of the surrender, Ballarat invited Tsane to meet with him, and the two of them sat down together in a garden pavilion. And played a game of chess. The second game also ended in a draw.

Last words

(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)He cried out, screamed in terror, but every sound was silenced in vacuum.