Rumors had been circulating that renegades and moredhel-dark elves known as the Brotherhood of the Dark Path-were infiltrating south under the cover of heavy rains and snow flurries. Locklear had been in court at Tyr-Sog less than a week when Baron Moyiet had suggested the young squire might benefit from accompanying the special patrol to the east of the city. The patrol followed a narrow trail along the edge of the foothills, the northern border of the Kingdom of the Isles. Not as balmy as Krondor, sorry to say, sir. Locklear wouldn’t be the first young dandy sent to the frontier to get him out of an angry husband’s reach. The sergeant had heard the rumor about the young noble’s sudden appearance in Tyr-Sog, some matter involving a young woman married to a well-connected merchant in Krondor. Sergeant Bales said, Gets nippy up here, Squire. Locklear cursed his own stupidity for leading him to this forlorn place.
Fall nights in the South might still be soft and warm, but up here in the North, Fall had been a brief visitor and Winter was early to arrive, and would be long in residence. Summer was quick to flee in the Northlands and the passes through the mountains known as the Teeth of the World. Locklear, Squire of the Prince of Krondor’s Court, sat huddled under his heavy cloak, astride his horse. Welcome now to astonishing new corners of a world you have not yet fully explored-and prepare to experience true excitement, blood chilling terror.and the triumph born from the doom aimed at the beating heart of a kingdom. It chronicles the powerful awakening of Owyn - apprentice magician of untried strengths - and celebrates the selfless achievements of Pug, the great sorcerer of two worlds. It tells of mysterious deaths and sinister machinations - and signs of a time when the fate of many civilizations rested in the able, unfaltering hands of RiftWar veterans Squire Locklear and cunning their-turned-squire Jimmy the Hand.
It is the story of a traitor who rejects the brutality of his warlike kind and casts his lot with the human targets of their fierce aggression. Attend to this hitherto untold chapter in the violent history of Midkemia - a towering saga of great conflicts, brave acts and insidious intrigues. Feist returns to a beleaguered realm of wonders and magic-where war is an enduring legacy where blood swells the rivers and nourishes the land. New York Times bestselling fantasist Raymond E. There is one, however, who defies the call to battle.
But a fearsome army of trolls and renegade humans, emboldened by the drug of destruction, has risen in strength from the ashes of defeat.
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