Sea of Shadow (The Twelve Kingdoms, book 1) by Fuyumi Ono

[james_davis_nicoll]

Sea of Shadow (The Twelve Kingdoms, book 1) by Fuyumi Ono

Comments

[mindstalk]

I don't think there's much of the blaming, and there's basically no inter-kingdom warfare. A later book touches on that. Troops crossing a border without invitation, even for humanitarian purposes, means your king dies in *days*.

[roseembolism]

Bear in mind, it's been a long time since I saw the ankme. There's a reason I started off with "IIRC".