The Shadow of the Lion Audiobook (Free)

ADVENTURES WITHIN AN OTHER-WORLDLY NEW-AGE VENICE it is the year 1537. The fantastic winged Lion stares more than a Venice where magic thrives. The rich Venetian Republic is normally a bastion of self-reliance and tolerance. Probably because of this, it is also corrupt, and rotten with intrigue. But also for the young brothers Marco and Benito Valdosta, vagabond and thief, Venice is certainly simply-home. They do not know that they stand at the guts from the city’s coming struggle because of its extremely life. They know nothing from the about The Shadow from the Lion powerful forces moving in the backdrop. They have hardly heard about Chernobog, demonlord of the North, who is shifting his pawns to assault Venice to be able to cut in to the underbelly from the Holy Roman Empire. All Marco and Benito understand is that they’re starving and in harmful organization: Katerina the smuggler, Caesare the sell-sword, Montagnard assassins, cathedral inquisitors, militant Knights from the Holy Trinity, Dottore Marina the Strega mage . and Maria. Maria might be a genuine canaler, but she got the latest temper a son could find. However among the dark waters from the canals lurk significantly worse dangers than a hot-tempered lady. Chernobog has arranged a monster loose to wreak havoc on the town. Magic, murder and evil are all at the job to pull Venice down. Fanatical monks seek to main out true witchcraft with open fire and sword. Steel-clad Teutonic knights, wealth traders, church dignitaries and great Princes fight and story for control of the jewel from the Mediterranean. And in some way all of these, from thieves to mages to princes, must collect around Marco and his sibling Benito, beneath the shadow of the great winged lion of Venice.