A lifelong journey, step by step with head down, to reach the Ultimate Summit, still an unattainable dream for over 800 years, since the first Horde attempted its quest. Une fois que l'on a posé le caractère fondamentalement chiant de ce texte , on pourra gloser et souligner que l'univers est puissant et prenant , c'est vrai . Atemporale – perchè vivono alla maniera medievale ma usufruiscono di strumenti ipertecnologici, quasi fantascientifici.

The story concerns a group of 23 people marching across their world against a wind that is always changing but never stops. They are the 34th such "horde" which has been trained since birth to undertake this quest to march all the way to the source of the wind.L’inizio sicuramente incuriosisce, ma al contempo getta in mezzo alla storia senza alcuna spiegazione, pertanto si seguono le prima pagine cercando di carpire più dati possibili per farsi un’idea del mondo in cui si è catapultati. The Spearhead progresses en bloc As a whole, as single mass .It is like a diamond-shaped rugby scrum, though there are different formations when faced by different winds.All members hold onto each other so they aren’t blown away, and adopt an aerodynamic posture. In a devastated world, living to the rhythms of the unbearable winds which rule it, an organization selects, raises and trains children from a very young age so that they will become the next horde. The 34th horde counts 23 members; each has a specific function (tracer, scribe, troubadour, hunter, protector, carer, maker of fire, wood maker, etc.). They have been traveling the world for over 30 years in search of the origin of the wind. Les autres sont souvent interchangeables, et donc donne l’impression d’une horde peuplé de figurants.

Le vent, qui a le premier rôle du roman, se décline sous neuf formes différentes. Les six premières sont, par ordre croissant de puissance, la zéfirine, le slamino, la stèche, le choon, le crivetz et le furvent. La découverte des trois dernières est l'un des buts de la Horde. Even from the beginning, there are hints that this quest is misguided. For example, in the first chapter they pass a city. If there is a city further upwind from where the groups start, then why, after hundreds of years of these hordes, haven't they moved the starting point further upwind? Other revelations in further chapters raise more such issues. The characters themselves aren't immune from wondering, and this becomes one of the major themes of the book: what gives meaning to your quest? or to your life? How do you continue fighting in the face of enormous obstacles when you're not even sure that what you're fighting for makes sense. The characters are all very different and thus find different reasons for continuing.

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Effectivement, il y a de belles scènes d’action, et même si on se doute de la fin on est très intrigués par la manière dont elle sera racontée par Damasio. Il y a un côté très mystique dans beaucoup de passages, et les chrones sont une invention vraiment fascinante. Dommage qu’au final le roman ne donne pas l’impression de faire beaucoup avec ces éléments. Ne parlons pas des éléments « politiques », par exemple les intrigues de l’Hordre qui a formé la majorité des protagonistes. Quasiment rien n’en ressort, c’est juste un moyen pour l’auteur de développer sa critique de la technocratie désincarnée. In 2022, Alain Damasio is also one of the six writers of Cross The Ages: The Chrome Spell Book. Those books are the spine of the digital collectible card game Cross The Ages: TCG. [2] Audio creations [ edit ] Another expert is the “troubadour”, a poet, mythographer and storyteller.And arguably a priest, jester and philosopher.The 34 th Horde’s troubadour is an enigmatic outsider and nomad, who joined them four years into their progression.

Spearhead members have two kinds of hunting birds (falcons and “ulturs”), which are an efficient way to find food.In 2010 he was a guest at the Festival of fantasy Worlds Les Imaginales in Epinal where he lectured about his work as a writer.