Copyright

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2007

      Copyright © Janny Wurts 2007

      Janny Wurts asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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      Source ISBN: 9780007217816

       Ebook Edition © FEBRUARY 2009 ISBN: 9780007318094

      Version: 2018-04-27

       Dedication

      For three, whose enduring commitment to the literature of the fantastic has enriched so many.

       Betty Ballantine

       Ellen Datlow

       Terri Windling

      Contents

       Fifth Book

       Cover Page

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Maps

       Story Time-line

       I. Binding Ties

       II. Recoil

       III. Obligations

       IV. Feint and Assaul

       V. Blood Debt

       VI. Counterstrokes

       VII. Siege

       VIII. First Turning

       IX. Schism

       X. Hammer and Anvil

       XI. Second Turning

       XII. Third Turning

       XIII. Stormed Fortress

       XIV. Sortie

       XV. Athir

       XVI. Scarpdale

       Keep Reading

       Glossary

       Appendix

       Acknowledgements

       About the Author

       Also by the Author

       About the Publisher

       Maps

Story Time-line What Has Gone Before

       Third Age Year

      5637—The half-brothers Arithon s’Ffalenn, Master of Shadow, and Lysaer s’Ilessid, gifted with Light, exiled through West Gate, are met as they arrive on Athera by the Fellowship Sorcerer Asandir and Dakar, the Mad Prophet, whose West Gate Prophecy forecast the defeat of the Mistwraith, Desh-thiere, and return of the sunlight that had been lost to Athera for five hundred years.

      Arithon meets his beloved, Elaira, who is under a life vow of service to the celibate order of the enchantresses of the Koriathain.

      5638—The

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