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Prince Arutha-newly returned from battle-is concerned about a rash of unexplained assassinations that plagues his capital city. This is Midkemia, where great heroes are bred, and its glorious center. Feist returns us now to a place of unparalleled wonders-a sprawling kingdom coveted by enemies on all sides a bustling center of commerce and magic, vibrantly alive and eternally in conflict.
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New York Times bestselling author Raymond E. For, with both sides carrying painful scars from past wars, each man must ask himself what is more important: one's life or one's honor?.
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But Hartraft's company arrives at the same time as a Tsurani patrol, and both sides discover the stronghold overrun by a migrating horde of dark elves called moredhel, a foe so deadly and vicious the bitter enemies must band together and fight as one.īut can their hatred for their mutual enemy overcome their distrust of each other? As the two groups, bound to each other by their common foe, make their way across the unknown Northlands to freedom, they have to struggle with not only the elements and the enemy, but also their consciences. Having only just survived a disastrous encounter with their sworn enemy, the Tsurani, the soldiers are headed for a frontier garrison, where they will be able to rest and recover. Nine years into the bloody and ongoing Riftwar, Dennis Hartraft's Marauders are cold, hungry, and exhausted. In the sprawling, embattled land of Midkemia, fate can form strange alliances. And behind this plot they discover the ancient Brotherhood of Death, the clan of assassins known as the Nighthawks.Īnd Pug will find himself once again facing his old nemesis, the evil wizard formerly known as Sidi, now Leso Varen, in a confrontation with everything at stake: his honor, his life, and the future of Midkemia.Īs the Riftwar tears Midkemia apart, enemies trapped in the frozen Northlands must trust each other to stay alive. Though untrained and unready, they are called upon by the mysterious Conclave to travel deep into the heart of the Empire of Great Kesh, to confront a plot so dark and twisted it will implicate even the highest-ranking nobles of the Empire, even members of the royal family itself.
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But on the dusty path that leads them from home they are thrust by fate into a life undreamed of, becoming enmeshed in intrigue, murder, and treason. Meanwhile, in far Stardock town, two boys are coming of age. Though Pug does not yet know it, his son Magnus has discovered the cause of Pug's prophetic dream: a beacon has been unleashed, directing a vast army of alien invaders to Midkemia, an army so formidable that even the might of the Tsurani Empire might fall before its fury. Disturbed by the dream, Pug calls for a convening of the Conclave of Shadows. In the middle of the night on Sorcerer's Isle, the powerful sorcerer Pug is awakened from a nightmare that portends destruction for all of Midkemia. Feist returns to his signature world of Midkemia in this first book in a gripping new trilogy that ushers in the third, and most dramatic, Riftwar yet: the Darkwar. The New York Times bestselling author and master of fantasy Raymond E. for the fate of two worlds lies in the balance. And the Conclave of Shadows, charged unexpectedly with the training of two apprentices, must also best powerful agents of the darkest magic. A new evil threatens Midkemia, its web stretching from the deepest criminal underworld all the way up to the highest seats of power in ancient Kesh.