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Being a cop in the only nonhuman city in the world is tough. You’ve got magical and mundane crimes, standard and supernatural perps, and as always, plenty of paperwork for both. The different groups don’t often mix. Elves have elvish problems, goblins have goblin problems. Everyone takes care of their own. But with the rest of the world going to hell, literally in some places, this divided city has to change. Enter the Inquisitors, the first arm of the integration initiative to make a stronger, better Quadras. Spearheading the Inquisitor program are two cops who’d rather be anywhere but with each other. Doughas Ruiridh is an old warhorse from the Dwarven Quarter hoping to retire already. Esselliar VorKluvaith is a hotshot elf investigator looking to bust corruption, unfettered by a partner. They must find a way to work together and trust each other because something big is coming. Malicious factions are growing like cancers in the city, and their schemes could cost the lives of thousands. The Inquisitors will have to make this partnership work if they don’t want the city’s next breath to be its last.
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Aaron was born to parents who taught him two very important things: truth matters and imagination is not a crime. Our protagonist has spent the rest of his life trying to live out those two maxims, much to the chagrin of every unfortunate around him (progenitors included). As such, by age six or seven, he was writing stories about a dark, reptilian avenger who brought final, painful justice to the guilty- with unsettling illustrations to boot. His beloved and benighted parents realized that budding sociopathy would simply not do, and so they began introducing him to tales of great and good heroes. First the account of a certain carpenter, then a hairy-footed burglar, then a savior lion, and after that point our protagonist was plunging face first and arms out into a world of heroism both real and imagined. While far from a hero himself, he has endeavored to try and capture that same bowed but unbroken spirit that dwells in a dark and ugly world, because that as far as he can tell is what makes it all worth while. Along this rambling, dreaming way he managed to find a woman he could bamboozle into loving him, and then even have children with, Lord have mercy on them all. Now Aaron has managed to cram no few exciting jobs and hair-raising experiences into his life so far, and God help him, he hopes for many more. It is these that drive his captured glimpses of something epic. If you have the time you should pull up a chair, grab a beer, light a pipe, or whatever your pre-literary consumption ritual may be and give them a look. It's been said they are truly monstrous, but as any true hero knows, monsters often guard treasure.
