In his natural state he’s a blue ram’s horn-headed beast like Beast but ganglier. In a deft touch on the theme of identity, Bishan is a shape-shifter who wears a mask in his human form. Standing in the way of this vampire vanguard is the Prince’s protector, Bishan, an Indian immortal, a raakshas. And so Pierrefont’s people, led by Count Jurre Grano, travel to said savage shores to meet interesting and stimulating people of an ancient culture and kill them. A dead white man (an undead dead white man maybe more so) doesn’t play well in a political tinderbox, let alone a place populated by non-whites. Pierrefont, a reckless sort, goes off the board within the first twenty pages. Into this cauldron of exploitation and greed sails a vampire, Alain Pierrefont, to serve as 'The Company’s' liaison to a young prince, Vikram of the Zamorin. These Savage Shores begins in southwestern India in the 1760s, during the Anglo-Mysore wars, a time when the corruptive influence and absolute power of the British Crown and its corporate bloodsuckers, The East India Company, was corrupting absolutely.
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