{"id":1634,"date":"2009-08-28T10:17:50","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T18:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=1634"},"modified":"2009-08-28T10:17:50","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T18:17:50","slug":"cover-art-synopsis-the-infernal-city-by-greg-keyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/art\/cover-art\/cover-art-synopsis-the-infernal-city-by-greg-keyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Art & Synopsis | The Infernal City by Greg Keyes"},"content":{"rendered":"\"The<\/a>\n
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Four decades after the Oblivion Crisis, Tamriel is threatened anew by an ancient and all-consuming evil. It is Umbriel, a floating city that casts a terrifying shadow\u2013for wherever it falls, people die and rise again.<\/p>\n

And it is in Umbriel\u2019s shadow that a great adventure begins, and a group of unlikely heroes meet. A legendary prince with a secret. A spy on the trail of a vast conspiracy. A mage obsessed with his desire for revenge. And Annaig, a young girl in whose hands the fate of Tamriel may rest….<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

I’m still a little bummed that Greg Keyes, author of The Kingdom of Thorn and Bone<\/strong> is writing tie-in fiction… but I suppose you gotta pay the bills somehow. Still, if any author can get me to give tie-in fiction a second look, it’s Keyes.<\/p>\n

As for the cover, the most interesting aspect to me is that they’re downplaying the Elder Scrolls<\/strong> connection. There’s no big logo, there’s nothing indicating that it’s related to a videogame, there’s no cheesy Computer Generated chick is leather. In fact, it all looks kinda boring. The artwork is nice, but the overall low contrast and the font work isn’t very memorable. Maybe it’ll look better in person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Four decades after the Oblivion Crisis, Tamriel is threatened anew by an ancient and all-consuming evil. It is Umbriel, a floating city that casts a terrifying shadow\u2013for wherever it falls, people die and rise again. And it is in Umbriel\u2019s shadow that a great adventure begins, and a group of unlikely heroes meet. A legendary… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cover-art"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n