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Aurian is a book in The Artefacts of Power Series.

To the city of Nexis, where Magefolk in their white walled towers rule uneasily over a restive race of Mortals, a young girl come to learn the magic arts. Aurian, a quicksilver swordswoman, has inherited Earth-magic from her mother and Fire-magic from her father. Unawakened within her lie far greater powers, coveted by the Archmage Miathan, who intends to possess her. But Aurian bravely flouts the Mages' Code and takes a mortal lover. Maddened by rage and jealousy, the corrupt Arachmage schemes to destroy her, unleashing cataclysmic forces from a lost age. Aurian is the only Mage strong enough to oppose Miathan, but to do so she must take up forbidden weapons of long-lost magic, at grave peril of her own destruction...or the annihilation of her very world.

Usage examples of "aurian".

We rate the starbred on the Aurian Scale, according to how strongly the psionic genes that give rise to the projectable epsilon carrier wave are expressed in them.

Seventy-five Aurian Scale out of a rough hundred, which means she can do over half the tricks the pure-blooded Aurians could.

The blood of the telepathic Aurian race from beyond the rim of the galaxy flowed in his veins, mingled with that of his Thyrian ancestors.

He sat on the black stool, body straight, one hand upraised slightly from using the Aurian voice-command.

Less widely known is the fact that the woman carried the Aurian makkah.

If the woman carried the Aurian plague, the makkah, she carried Aurian genes.

Destia and her brothers begged to play the kinnora and the clairsa and in return read her ancient Aurian holy tales.

Certainly two carriers of the lost Aurian line would be allowed access to the Sentinel sanctuary.

They were never used as sacred writ, but as teaching stories for the Aurian children.

The Aurians brought them when they came, and no one has figured out how to make them.

The plague had left the Aurians without sons, too, a dying people scattered to the stars in a last search for pockets of humanity.

Mistress Caldwell, that you descend from the Aurians as well, and that you show surprising mental strength, and you cannot go on without asking if you too could be tested.