Title: The stone in the skull
Description: The Gage is a brass automaton created by a wizard of Messaline around the core of a human being. His wizard is long dead, and he works as a mercenary. He is carrying a message from a the most powerful sorcerer of Messaline to the Rajni of the Lotus Kingdom. With him is The Dead Man, a bitter survivor of the body guard of the deposed Uthman Caliphate, protecting the message and the Gage. They are friends, of a peculiar sort.  -- amazon.com
Subjects: Imaginary places, Magic, Nobility, Fiction, Fiction, fantasy, general, Magic -- Fiction, Imaginary places -- Fiction, Nobility -- Fiction