Caçadores de Bruxas

In the Old Era, Amazon fairies protected Nova Ether until some of them turned on the ancient races and black-magic witches took over. Primo Branford led the Witch Hunt and became king of Arzallum. Twenty years later, the peace starts to crack. Nine-year-old Ariane Narin watches a wolf marked by a witch kill her grandmother and learns her family are witches. Siblings João and Maria Hanson are trapped by a cannibal witch. The ship Jolly Rogers returns under a captain worse than the last, and two criminal societies go to war, dragging in the royal family. By the end, Branca Coração-de-Neve's mother dies, and the narrator closes the book in chapter ∞ saying Nova Ether only lives while someone thinks of it.

1. Behind the scenesBorn from the words The End

   In the afterword, Draccon says that as a kid he read fairy tales and hated seeing "the end". He wanted to know what came next. Nova Ether grew out of that question.

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2. Behind the scenesThree publishers

   The book came out from Planeta in 2007, was relaunched by Leya in 2010 and got a new Melhoramentos edition in 2020, alongside the final volume.

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3. ReferenceHanson, like the band

   Little Red Riding Hood became Ariane Narin, and Hansel and Gretel got the last name Hanson, from the American band. Prince Axel is named after Axel Stone from the Streets of Rage games.

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4. SetupJust one dwarf

   Of the seven dwarfs, only one shows up in this book: Master Ira, the Grumpy one. Remember the name.

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