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SOLVED. Villain is the child of a deer person and bird person [s]
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Still no idea of the title, just pushing this back up for you guys.
I think this is a Sara Douglass novel - one of the Axis Trilogy. There was Battleaxe, Starman and Enchanter. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
In Battleaxe, the first characters introduced are 2 unnamed women in mortal peril, one who is pregnant and one who has just given birth. The pregnant one is trying desperately to reach shelter during a snowstorm. She is an outcast of her people, the Avar because she has decided to carry her child, conceived during a festival and considered an abomination, to term. A group of demonic creatures, skraelings, watch as her unborn child brutally eats his way out of her womb, killing her. The monsters are delighted and decide to adopt the hateful child. He turns out to be the villain. The female protagonist is called Faraday, and her love interest in the first book is called Axis.
It's definitely Battleaxe, thank you! I'd forgotten most of the plot, but the character names all ring true.
I hardly remember the plot, but I believe the protagonist was female. The main population was human, but there were mystical bird and deer hybrids. It was fine to be part deer person, or be part bird person, but if deer people and bird people had children it was unnatural and wrong. The villain was the product of such a union, and I think his mother was exiled, and died in the snow, but he managed to survive.
I think remarked to a friend that the lead female's prophecy/dreams of the villain were a bit too romantic, and she went 'Oh yeah. They're in love in the next one," but now she denies all knowledge of the series!