{"id":346,"date":"2021-12-08T03:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T03:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/?p=346"},"modified":"2022-03-16T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T20:10:49","slug":"beforetimes-the-imperator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/2021\/12\/08\/beforetimes-the-imperator\/","title":{"rendered":"Beforetimes: The Imperator"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/BeforetimesCoverImperator_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-344 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/BeforetimesCoverImperator_thumb.jpg 468w, https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/BeforetimesCoverImperator_thumb-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>The fourth and final short story in the <em>Beforetimes<\/em> series is \u201cThe Imperator\u201d in which Laria, accepting that the decades-long conflict is over, relinquishes her rank and sets off to reconcile what the war has brought them to. A bonus Epilogue brings the Beforetimes to a close and sets the stage for <em><strong>Afterlands: After the Harrowing<\/strong><\/em>, a novella to be released  December 18, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The four short stories about what happened <em>before<\/em> the opening pages of <em>After the Harrowing<\/em> are presented on this website and will remain here for <em>free<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each story highlights main characters of <em>Afterlands<\/em> and reveals events leading to the end of the Continent\u2019s war between the King and his sister\u2019s cult of \u201cthe Mother\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8.3k words. Click format to read now:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/004-Afterlands-Beforetimes-The-Imperator.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">PDF<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/epubs\/004 Afterlands_Beforetimes The Imperator.epub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EPUB<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">[Please keep in mind that Beforetimes tales may be dark as they all occur before the \u201cdawn\u201d. This story isn&#8217;t scary at all, though. I promise.]\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fourth and final short story in the Beforetimes series is \u201cThe Imperator\u201d in which Laria, accepting that the decades-long conflict is over, relinquishes her rank and sets off to reconcile what the war has brought them to. A bonus Epilogue brings the Beforetimes to a close and sets the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beforetimes","wpcat-5-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookingland.com\/afterlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}