The Tiger and the Wolf (Echoes of the Fall, 1)

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There are things you must do, and things you must not do. We know this. You river people find it so complicated, so hard to tell one thing from another. You use so many words.' Iron Age tribes dominated by a whole world of humans who can shapeshift isn't a bad concept, mind you, and having a dual nature of Tiger and Wolf is a great conflict, especially since the two Great Tribes had not long ago had a war and the enmity sits heavy upon both. If you are one of those readers that loves tons and tons to battles featuring shapeshifters of tons of breeds, be it wolves, tigers, alligators, bears, horses, and a partridge in a pear tree, then ignore everything else I've written here. THIS IS A BOOK YOU'LL LOVE.

The Tiger and the Wolf by Adrian Tchaikovsky - Pan Macmillan

Explore the wild jungle as a powerful tiger! This visually stunning RPG will let you develop your character and upgrade your skills to become the strongest cat out there. Try your skills in one of two modes: CO-OP or PVP - everything in Online Real-Time Multiplayer. Play with people from all over the World!Their striking similarities are the result of convergent evolution, a process where different animals evolve to look the same because they occupy similar places in the ecosystem, sharing some lifestyle factors such as hunting. Maniye in the meantime not only has the soul of both of her gods - the Wolf and the Tiger - but those souls are at war for dominance inside her mind. ‘I have too many souls, and they’re tearing me apart,’ and it’s not just a metaphor.

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The book also isn’t just about wolves and tigers, there is a plethora of animals peopling it: crocodiles, bears, snakes, horses, hyenas, deer, boar, hawks, dragons (yeah, baby) and tons more. I don’t know about you, but I love animals. I love reading about them, seeing them, petting them. I just love them! And the more they appeared, the more I found myself hungry to discover more and more that I ended up burning through the entire trilogy in just a couple of days. This was seriously an animal lover’s dream and it brought out a big old geek grin from me along with a generous dose of geek joy. Don’t even get me started on the absolute delight of this entirely entertaining jape that is the animal hand-to-hand (claw-to-claw, more precisely) combat. Crocodile combat, anyone? YES PLEASE.

This world was so different from anything I have read. But, it is Adrian Tchaikovsky and having reading a couple of his books thus far, anything goes.

The tiger and the wolf : Tchaikovsky, Adrian, 1972- author

And it's a world which is wonderfully drawn, from the heat of the Sun River Nation which is part Meso-america, part Egypt, through the plains of the Laughing People, all the way to the Canadian Arctic-like cold of the Crown of the World, and Tchaikovsky peoples it with crocodile, lizard, hyena, boar, deer, hawk and owl, all of whom are human but wear their animal natures even before they Step. Variety is expressed not only in the difference of clan animal and colour of skin, but in every aspect of their lives, their food, their clothes, their houses -- burrowed into the ground, worked in wood or in stone -- and most of all in their weapons. The southerners have jade and obsidian flakes embedded in wooden clubs, tigers and others have bronze, but only Maniye's own people have learned how to make the "Wolf wood" which allows them to smelt iron for their knives and arrowheads. The smelting and charcoal burning is also bound up in their shamanistic priesthood and ceremonies, and in their beliefs and their gods. And these gods are alive to their people -- Maniye feels the Wolf's breath as he watches her escape, she sees the Tiger's shadow in the halls of her mother's kin, she even senses the Serpent which coils under the land. Remarkably, the Tasmanian tiger pups were more similar to wolf pups than to other closely related marsupials like the quoll. A lot of fantasy follows ‘classics’, where the world is a version of European middle ages (often an imaginary version of later Enlightenment historians, who coined the term Dark Ages), recently with a bit larger globe coverage, adding Indian, Chinese or pre-Columbian Americas cultures, but still, ‘Knights and Mages’. This one is a rare (but not unique) attempt to step much deeper in history, closer to earlier civilizations, and more importantly – pre-civilization (i.e. urban) cultures. As it is known, such cultures almost always had a totem animal, which was considered a progenitor of the tribe. Here it is taken literally to the next step – all humans are were-animals of their tribe, be it wolf, hyena, horse or snake.That sound spoke of ages, great stone volumes of history that had come and gone, filled with the lives of men who thought that their 'now' was the only now that mattered. -pg 329” The Tiger & The Wolf is something very different again. Set in a world where different clans of people belong to different totems and can transform or "Step" into the animal of that totem, it's essentially a coming of age tale. Maniye who lives with her father, Akrit Stone River, Chief of the Winter Runners clan, can Step into a wolf like him; but she can also Step into a tiger, like her mother. Akrit plans to use Maniye to win a war which will set him as High Chief of all the wolves. When Maniye learns this, she runs away to choose which side of her soul to keep and which side she has to cut away.

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There was less Asmander than Maniye, and I hope that this will be changed in the books to come because as much as it is easier to squeeze a good tale out of a rebel, I wonder what Mr Tchaikovsky can achieve with a boring character of a good if a tad dangerous boy. Although my altogether favourite character, aside from the Broken Axe, was the Serpent priest Hesprec. In the world of tough warriors that is dictated by the survival of the fittest, a toothless elder is refreshingly out of character. Create your own tiger! Choose your favorite - the Asian Tiger? White Tiger? Or maybe the rare Gold Tiger? Whichever reflects your character the best - it’s all up to you! With the same grace Tchaikovsky takes on other issues that plague modern society, such as child abuse, patriarchal society norms and misogyny, gender issues (and even transgender issues) and a host of other topics. It's almost bewildering that he managed to cram all of that into single novel. The Wolf I follow is in here.’ Broken Axe tapped his chest. ‘He wants no sacrifice. He needs no man to die in agony by fire. He wants the clean joy of the hunt, the fresh snow, the wide sky and the moon. He wants a simple life that isn’t stained by other men’s ambition and greed.’ The world of Tiger & Wolf is a fractious one, with most animal tribes competing (and waging war) for land and resources. This is particularly true in the north, where the hearty tiger, wolf, bear, eagle, seal, boar, and deer fight to survive the habitually recurring frost. The Tiger tribe once ruled the north uncontested – until the various wolf clans banded together and threw them down. In the process, one of the wolf clan leaders took the tiger queen hostage and had a child – Maniye. Maniye in our main protagonist and she has an interesting problem – she has two spirit animals. Being able to “step” into both the form of a wolf AND a tiger initially sounds like a blessing. However, Tchaikovsky does an incredible job of bringing the nature and majesty of each animal to life in their respective tribes, and the tiger and the wolf HATE one another. The spirits of the various tribes are not faceless forces, but sentient deities with agendas – and the tiger and the wolf both despise the girl who forces them to “be in the same room”.

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Maniye belongs to the wolf clan, yet she has never really belonged, outcast as the only daughter of the sonless wolf king and a deceased mother of the tiger clan. As she struggles with the loneliness and sorrow warring inside her, so too do the split sides of her soul begin to clash. Is she a tiger or is she a wolf? Or is she just Maniye, a lost girl doomed to madness if she fails to choose a side? The book is constructed as an introduction not only into this Iron Age world full of clans of humans, who also carry within them the soul of an animal typical for the regional environment, but also as a set up for a big event soon to come, most probably a war, but the adversaries are yet to be determined. This upcoming gloom and doom casts shadows over the whole continent and clans from different parts of the North, Midlands and South are looking to establish alliances. In that macro scope, the author introduces us to one of the most microscopic in influence character - a young girl who lives in her father's clan of Iron Wolves and is only trying to survive without bringing notice on herself. In her experience, notice usually comes with pain, belittlement and abuse. But being the daughter of the clan's chief, and having been born of the union between a wolf and a tiger, she is hard to ignore, as insignificant and pathetic as she might seem. Living with both animals' souls in her body, the time has come for her to choose one, or the battle within her will drive her insane and tear her apart. Also, her father has some plans of how to use her to his best advantage. Thus the story begins.