Fall of Ruin

Solo nove città sono state risparmiate dalla collera degli dei che ha distrutto il mondo. Ora sono separate da vaste distese selvagge brulicanti di mostri e pericoli inimmaginabili, e ciascuna di esse è governata da un principe o una principessa della stirpe degli Hyhborn, custodi del Regno di Caelum, creature misteriose che si nutrono del piacere mortale. Dotata fin dalla nascita della capacità di intuire il futuro, Calista sa che il suo potere fa gola a molti, e così ha scelto di vivere nascosta nel palazzo del Barone di Archwood, con il quale ha stretto un patto: in cambio della sua protezione, si offre come cortigiana ai suoi ospiti per carpire loro le informazioni di cui lui ha bisogno. È quello che succede quando si presenta ad Archwood una delegazione di Re Euros, capitanata da Thorne, Principe di Vytrus, il bellissimo hyhborn che lei aveva salvato qualche tempo prima da un destino orribile e che ora pretende le sue attenzioni..

It started and ended with a financial catastrophe. The Darien disaster of 1700 drove Scotland into union with England, but spawned the institutions which transformed Edinburgh into a global financial centre. The crash of 2008 wrecked the city's two largest and oldest banks – and its reputation. In the three intervening centuries, Edinburgh became a hothouse of financial innovation, prudent banking, reliable insurance and smart investing. The face of the city changed too as money transformed it from medieval squalor to Georgian elegance.

The Fall of the House of Zeus tells the story of Dickie Scruggs, arguably the most successful plaintiff's lawyer in America. A brother-in-law of Trent Lott, the former U.S. Senate Majority Leader, Scruggs made a fortune taking on mass tort lawsuits against "Big Tobacco" and the asbestos industries. He was hailed by Newsweek as a latter day Robin Hood, and portrayed in the movie, The Insider, as a dapper aviator-lawyer. Scruggs' legal triumphs rewarded him lavishly, and his success emboldened both his career maneuvering and his influence in Southern politics—but at a terrible cost, culminating in his spectacular fall, when he was convicted for conspiring to bribe a Mississippi state judge.

The Origins of Ruin is the third studio release of the progressive metal band Redemption. It is Redemption's first album with InsideOut Music and the first album with Sean Andrews on the bass guitars. The Origins of Ruin emphasises once again their unique musical skills. Complex songwriting combined with melodic heaviness, Redemption play Melodic Progressive Metal the way it should be!

Welcome an exciting new character - the haunted fox, Iris!

The war in Europe was reaching its cataclysmic final months with Germany surrounded on all sides. Hitler’s forces had been driven from Poland by the Red Army and the Soviets were poised a short distance from Berlin, while the Western allies, having repulsed the Führer’s Ardennes offensive, were preparing to cross the Rhine.