They have a great dynamic together and the novel is best when both are on the page together, fighting, bickering, and adventuring together. Sebastian maps onto the big man Fafhrd, and the Copper Cat Wydrin maps onto The Mouser fairly easily. The “wunza” nature of the two main protagonists is a classic in sword and sorcery going all the way back to Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser (and even older, if you really want to go into the oeuvre of writers like C.L. The Copper Promise is a fixup of a quartet of novellas by Jen Williams. When you release a Dragon God and her seemingly undefeatable army of dragonwomen, what can a pair of mercenaries do but try and clean up the mess they started? Even as their employer still looks for power to reclaim his ancestry, and the rest of the world is hardly idle in the face of an existential threat to their existence.
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A magical vault that contains a long imprisoned scaly God and followers that the pair inadvertently free. The opening of the book starts off straightforwardly enough, with the pair hired by a deposed noble to break into a magical vault. Wydrin is an infamous rogue of the port city of Crosshaven known as the Copper Cat, deadly with two blades. Sebastian is the big guy, a defrocked paladin of a mountain god.
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Sebastian and Wydrin are mercenaries and adventurers, longtime friends and partners, doing jobs for coin in a way and manner familiar to a lot of sword and sorcery fiction.