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Okay, I've got 2 books I can't seem to find/remember the correct title for. The first I think is just titled "Warlord" but I haven't any luck finding the correct book. It was the last book in a series/trilogy/something. No clue what the series is as I only ever read this particular book. The book shifted to the viewpoints of various characters, but the main focus was on a man I think was named Demask, or Damask. Demask was going around and conquering everything. Two scenes I remember are: 1. Demask's daughter is thinking about how the soldiers would train their formations on fields covered in pig corpses to simulate a battlefield littered with bodies. 2. Towards the end of the book there was a expedition/colonizing fleet sent out and they set up two towns called Demask and Demask Too because they ran out of ideas for town names, like Demaskville, Demaskburg, etc. The book was mostly fantasy, sword fighting, spearmen, etc. But it had some scifi elements in it that showed up in these disembodied voices that followed one of the characters around due to some high-tech machinery. Yeah, fairly generic stuff. It's just bothering me now that I can't find the book. The other book focused on this girl who could talk to animals. Her power isn't overly unique, there are many others in the world that had abilities of different sorts. At one point then end up prisoners at this military base where people with those abilities are trained to use them for the army. She and the others at the base eventually revolt and escape. And she eventually ends up at this castle where she discovers there are 2 dragons which people hadn't seen in a long time/thought were extinct. There is a reveal towards the end of the book that the reason people got powers was because they lived on land that dragons used to live on. During this entire time, the girl had been traveling with her brother who didn't have any powers. But at the end of the book it's revealed he actually could influence people's minds to do what he wanted. Like in the beginning of the book he influenced his sister to eat meat, even though the idea always repulsed her since she could talk to animals.
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Apr 26, 2010 05:11
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wheatpuppy posted:Is it at all possible that you are conflating more than one book? I ask because there's an omnibus book called "Warlord" that includes 3 books in the General Series by SM Stirling and David Drake. They're set in the far future after humanity has spread to the stars and descended into a new Dark Age due to constant infighting and civil war. The hero Raj Whitehall hears the voice of "Center" in his head. Center is a supercomputer that helps him become a great warrior to reunite his planet and drag the people back into a more civilized era. So it sounds sort of similar, but I don't recall anybody named Damask/Demask. If you remember people riding giant dogs instead of horses though, this is probably it. Ah that was it, sort of. The book was "The Tyrant" book 8 of that series. And the name was Justicar Verice Demansk. Sweet, that's one mental itch taken care of, many thanks.
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Apr 26, 2010 21:26
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Hello again, thanks for the help with my last request. Once again I have a forgotten title nagging at my mind. The main character was a girl with the power to speak with animals. There other people with powers generally feared/mistreated. At one point in the book she is captured and put into a place where a country has been training such people to be a military force. But eventually she leads a revolt and breaks out. Eventually she ends up at a castle I think, where she discovers there are 2 dragons, which were thought to be extinct. And it comes to light that the powers people have gained are a result of having lived on land were dragons used to reside. Any ideas?
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Feb 8, 2011 19:37
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.Z. posted:Hello again, thanks for the help with my last request. Found it. The Secret of Dragonhome
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Feb 21, 2011 23:20
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Ugh, please help me identify this book so it stops bugging me. The book is about a group of teens who were raised in VR by the military as a mix of commander/electronic warfare geniuses. At some point they manage to escape VR and escape the base they are held in. Stealing a submarine at some point. This becomes important as the VR implants they were given are extremely sensitive to unshielded EMF. To the point strong sources could cause extreme pain or death. Probably written in the early 2000s, maybe in the 2005-2010 range.
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Apr 11, 2022 09:27
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wizzardstaff posted:I very strongly remember reading a book like that in middle school (a little earlier than the time range you gave) but the title is escaping me. Do these points resonate with you: Unfortunately Virtual War isn't it. If I'm remembering correctly, the setting was modern day Earth.
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