Series: Arrandin trilogy
Volume: 1
Genre: Fantasy
ISBN: 0671021893
Publisher: Earthlight
Price: £5.99
Reader Rating: 9 out of 10
Votes: 5
Volume: 1
Genre: Fantasy
ISBN: 0671021893
Publisher: Earthlight
Price: £5.99
Reader Rating: 9 out of 10
Votes: 5
Description: In his debut novel Marcus Herniman unfurls a world of high magic and late medieval splendour, rife with its own internal conflicts. The tyrannous ambition of the Emperors of Lautun has all but swept away the ancient traditions of the Six Kingdoms, and the gentle harmony of the elder gods of the Aeshtar is being uprooted by the advent of the imperial Vashta faith.
When an army from the barbaric Eastern Domains brings sudden war upon their borders, the leaders of the Lautun Empire struggle to bury their own differences and counter this new threat. It falls to High Councillor Rhysana and her fellow Magi, aided by the priests and knights of the old religious Orders of the Aeshtar, to hold the strategic city of Arrandin until such time as the Emperor Rhydden and his armies can arrive to drive the enemy back.
Meanwhile, Rhydden discovers that warships have begun to burn and pillage along the coast, as the powerful God-King of the South makes his own bid for the lands and wealth of the Lautun Empire. The imperial armies are faced with the prospect of having to fight two wars on separate fronts.
As the Easterners advance, and the border manors fall through treachery and dire battle-magic, the survival of Arrandin rests on the slender hope that Rhysana and her friends can find and awaken the legendary magical defences hidden somewhere within the city. But the growing fear of the Magi and the Aeshta Orders is that the demonic forces accompanying the invading Easterners herald the return of a far more ancient and deadly adversary, banished from the world over fifteen hundred years before.
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