It wa a festive season, a season of joy ...
Four days before Hostenfest, the young prince Gaborn Val Orden enters the city of Bannisferre incognito. He is expected to marry the Crown Princess, Iome, to cement their lands' alliance, but soon event overtake such plans.
Raj Ahten, Wolf Lord of the Southern Lands, is invading the Northern kingdoms of Refehavan to increase his power base as a prelude to facing the barbarian hordes of Inkarra. To the northerners there seems no difference between the two enemies. Before there is time for old alliances to be refroged - or for new alliances to be born - Raj Ahten has taken an entire kingdom and is moving northward ... thanks to the "endowments" of wit, brawn and glamour he has drawn, vampire-like, from the conquered masses.
Gaborn and Iomeare amongst those who continue to oppose Raj Ahten's seemingly unstoppable conquest as a world goes to war and the powers of the Earth King are awoken ...
David Farland has created a new, colourful world fo honour and magic which will be loved by all readers of Robert Jordan, Epic Fantasy has a new emporer ...
Four days before Hostenfest, the young prince Gaborn Val Orden enters the city of Bannisferre incognito. He is expected to marry the Crown Princess, Iome, to cement their lands' alliance, but soon event overtake such plans.
Raj Ahten, Wolf Lord of the Southern Lands, is invading the Northern kingdoms of Refehavan to increase his power base as a prelude to facing the barbarian hordes of Inkarra. To the northerners there seems no difference between the two enemies. Before there is time for old alliances to be refroged - or for new alliances to be born - Raj Ahten has taken an entire kingdom and is moving northward ... thanks to the "endowments" of wit, brawn and glamour he has drawn, vampire-like, from the conquered masses.
Gaborn and Iomeare amongst those who continue to oppose Raj Ahten's seemingly unstoppable conquest as a world goes to war and the powers of the Earth King are awoken ...
David Farland has created a new, colourful world fo honour and magic which will be loved by all readers of Robert Jordan, Epic Fantasy has a new emporer ...
