A collection of novellas featuring the same two characters set in various interesting fantasy and fantasy-adjacent settings. White Crow is Mary Gentle’s response to all the bad low effort fantasy that was flooding the market in 90s and early 00s.

Sad/mad gay wizards doing sad/mad gay wizard things. Very grim… There are a bunch of Herald Mages running around at the start of this series which begs the question: “What’s going to happen to all of the Herald Mages?”