Chronicles of the Varian Empire - volume 3 The Enlightened Emperor Half-blood means "different." Good or evil depends on the point of view. The Genn were banished from the Varian Empire almost sixty years ago, their last town destroyed twenty-five years ago. Half-bloods have a hard time fitting in, especially if they have no idea of what they have lost. So they find the most unlikely of friends - a warrior woman, a scholar, a Sila, a wannabe wizard and maybe even the Emperor himself. The Warrior Woman When a retired warrior woman loses her man, she can only go back to the warpath, oblivious of her motherly duties. A Silvery Earth novella.