What is "ascian"

Usage examples of "ascian".

Then I knew the miracle had passed without my notice, had passed as I copied out some stodgy sentence about Master Gurloes or the Ascian War.

Haste only made me stumble, and the leg that had been laid open by some Ascian infantryman at the Third Battle of Orithyia drew the rest toward the grave.

I knew my own reflected my fear, and felt much as I had when the Ascian pentadactyls had whirled over Guasacht's schiavoni.

And a hundred more besides: Ascians, tall Idas, and grim-mouthed Casdoe with little Severian in her arms.

It was only that the damage done by some nameless Ascian's spear, by Agia's palmed claws and the blood bat's teeth, had been undone.

The Claw had returned—not the Claw destroyed by Ascian artillery, nor even the Claw I had given the chiliarch of Typhon's Praetorians, but the Claw of the Conciliator, the gem I had found in my sabretache as Dorcas and I walked down a dark road beside the Wall of Nessus.

All the while Maxellindis and me were together you were Autarch, but mostly they said you were off fighting the Ascians.

People said their marrying was good—she could stay in the House Absolute and take care of the Commonwealth while he took care of the Ascians.

Again I endured my imprisonment in the jungle ziggurat by Vodalus, the year I had spent among the Ascians, my flight from the white wolves in the Secret House.

The Claw had returned--not the Claw destroyed by Ascian artillery, nor even the Claw I had given the chiliarch of Typhon's Praetorians, but the Claw of the Conciliator, the gem I had found in my sabretache as Dorcas and I walked down a dark road beside the Wall of Nessus.

People said their marrying was good--she could stay in the House Absolute and take care of the Commonwealth while he took care of the Ascians.

Would it be possible to hold back the Ascians when there was so much room to maneuver?

But to banish them now would only be to deliver a corps of spies to the Ascians, to be trained and supplied with funds and sent back among us.

Such a place could scarcely be expected to stand for more than a day at most against the Ascian enemy—rather, it seems designed to fend off raids by brigands and rebellions by the local exultants and armigers.