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Children of the Rune – Winterer 1

Children of the Rune – Winterer 1 scrap

룬의 아이들 - 윈터러 완전판 1

  • Author

    Jeon Minhee전민희

  • Publisher

    ELIXIR엘릭시르

  • Year Published

    2019-06

  • Category

    Genre Fiction 장르소설

  • Target User

    Adult 성인

  • Period

    Contemporary 현대

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Description 작품 소개

Children of the Rune is the signature novel series of the author Jeon Min-hee, the leading figure of fantasy fiction in South Korea whose work is marked with beautiful worldbuilding, distinctive characters, and eloquent writing styles with emotional depth. The series is divided into three parts: part 1 is “Winterer” with a total of 7 volumes; part 2 is “Demonic” with a total of 9 volumes; and part 3 is “Blooded” with currently 6 volumes and more to be released. 
“Children of the Rune: Winterer” is the first part of the trilogy that marks the beginning of its series. Boris, a boy who unexpectedly loses all his family, must confront the world on his own, and all he has left is himself and a sword. The novel unfolds the secret of a treasured sword called the “Winterer,” and the connections that Boris make with Lanziee, Nauplion, Isolet, Endimion, and other characters whom he meets in the course of his journey. 

Plot Summary
In Travachess, the land under political chaos, it is not uncommon to see a collapse of a tribe due to a factional division. The situation is not very different for the Jinnemans—that is because Yulkan, the head of the Jinneman tribe, and Blado, Yulkan’s younger brother, are at odds as they serve different masters. 
However, the tension between the two brothers isn’t only due to political reasons. It is Yenichka Jinneman, their younger sister and their mediator, who becomes the ultimate trigger of their conflict. Yenichka has a fiancée whom she loves so deeply that she decides to turn against her own family to move to his faction. Finding this unacceptable, Blado throws Yenichka’s fiancée into a basement and locks him up, while lying to his sister that her fiancée has left for Emira Lake. Yulkan leaves his tactical brother to himself because he trusts him, but Yenichka, whose commitment is much more profound, enters the lake where she is attacked by Golmodap, a monstrous creature that puts people into madness. Yulkan ends up killing his mad sister and throwing her body into Emira Lake, and through this incident, the two brothers become lifelong enemies.   
Caught up in the family turmoil, Boris, the next heir to the Jinneman tribe, becomes a fugitive who is passed down the Winterbottom Kit (namely, the winter sword “Winterer” and the chain mail armor “Snowguard”). Although Yevgnen Jinneman—Boris’s brother who is eight years older than him—doesn’t explicitly tell him so, young Boris with his keen sensitivity learns intuitively that their butler Tulk who is a magician, and their father Yulkan are most likely dead. At first, Boris doesn’t remember anything that has happened at Emira Lake at the time of the conflict, but when his brother strangles him, Boris suddenly regains his memory. Then he realizes that his brother, like their aunt Yenichka, has been attacked by the monster and is suffering from psychotic convulsions. Yevgnen makes a desperate effort to protect his younger brother, and throughout their journey, he advises him on what kind of life outtake they should have. He emphasizes to Boris that they shouldn’t pay much attention to other people’s business and that no matter what it takes, they must survive. However, Yevgnen worries that he will harm Boris if his psychosis persists, and he ends up taking his own life so that he will not trouble his younger brother. Yevgnen’s death becomes pivotal to Boris, who has preferred to die at his brother’s hand, and it turns his life upside down thereafter. 
The Jinneman tribe comes to a collapse, and Boris, losing both his father and his brother, unwantedly becomes the next owner of the Winterbottom Kit. Embracing his foresight, Boris continues his journey as a fugitive with the previous words of his brother constantly reminding him that he must survive. He faces all kinds of hardships on his way, just like how Yevgnen has warned him before taking his own life. After experiencing a series of betrayals, Boris doubts whether he can ever trust anyone again, but nevertheless, he manages to ask an innkeeper about work opportunities, and he is introduced to a blacksmith job. Still unable to overcome his anxiety, however, Boris gets up one night and wanders about outside, where he almost gets run over by a horse. While he is getting beaten up by riders, Count of Belnoire intervenes just in time and rescues Boris. Then telling Boris that he wants to use him for some purpose, Belnoire takes Boris with him to his territory, Velcruise of Anomarad. 
Indeed, Count of Belnoire had his intention when he said he wanted to use Boris for some purpose. He has won a bet that he made with his friend, and as a result, he must surrender his one and only beloved daughter Roseneath to his friend’s imbecile son. To avoid this, he needs a child who can fight the opposing attorney and win the case. Although Belnoire could’ve taken in any boy in the street and trained him, he preferred a child from a noble—or at least comparable—background, who is courteous and well-educated enough for excuses like “He’s my adopted son raised in another place, but I’ve called him in only recently,” to work. In addition to that, even before he finds out that Boris is from the Jinneman tribe, he assumed that a boy who carries around what is visibly a valuable sword would have a decent level of swordsmanship. 
Ever since the time Yevgnen was still alive, Boris has been tricked by others numerous times, and so he has been very cautious about whom he trusts. Yet again, convinced by Belnoire’s unpretentious attitude in disclosing his intention and allowing Boris to make the decision, Boris decides to trust Belnoire and accept their “terms of use.” 
Now as a Belnoire, Boris becomes the stepbrother of Roseneath Belnoire. He is also assigned a servant named Lanziee and a swordsman teacher named Walnut, and he enjoys many privileges, such as living in the best chamber in the castle and gaining unrestrained access to the library. Furthermore, upon hearing about the chance that Yevgnen Jinneman may still be alive, Belnoire goes out of his way to help Boris to verify the status of his brother’s survival. 
However, Boris finds out from Lanziee that Belnoire’s true intention is none other than the ‘Winterer” and the “Snowguard”. It turns out that even the riders who have beaten him up were all part of Belnoire’s scheme to take the Winterbottom Kit from Boris. 
While running away from Belnoire, Boris ends up committing his first murder, and together with his teacher Walnut—whose real name is Isilder—they head to Walnut’s homeland, the Islands of the Moon. 

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