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Old World Thunder, New World Fire: White Sky, Black Bird 2
White Sky and Black Bird reach a European trading post at the edge of lake Ontario, where they deliver their quarry to their wealthy and eccentric patron, the Finnish scientist Dr. Härkönen. Read about it here.
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Old World Thunder, New World Fire: Anne-Marie de Parthenay 2
Anne-Marie meets Jeannine, the daughter of Le Marquis de Denonville, the most powerful person in New France. Jeannine is kind, beautiful and ethereal, but Anne-Marie isn’t yet sure whether she’s friend or foe. Read about it here.
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Old World Thunder, New World Fire: Peter Sparrow 1
Meet Peter Sparrow, a poor Irish boy only ten years old. Peter has been spirited away on a ship to the colony of New York, and sold as an indentured servant to an eccentric slave dealer, Mr. Daughtrey. Mr. Daughtrey in turn plans to give him as a gift to Solomon Peters, one of the…
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Old World Thunder, New World Fire: Chrétien de Parthenay 1
Meet Chrétien de Parthenay, Anne-Marie’s jaded older brother. In this chapter, he adjusts to his new life in the New World, and worries for his sister’s health. Read about it here.
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Old World Thunder, New World Fire: White Sky, Black Bird 1
All great things can be found in pairs: sun and moon, fire and water, life and death. And so it was that the finest trader in all the Great Lakes was actually two traders: Waabigiizhig and Memeskoniinisi–White Sky and Black Bird. Read about them here.
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Old World Thunder, New World Fire: Introduction & Name Chart
This serialized story is an effort to understand an oft-underexplored point in American History: the period between the first European settlements in the Americas and the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Specifically, the serial will begin just before the onset of King William’s War, the second in a series of conflicts that are understood…