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Return to the world of the Runelords, where human endowments such as stamina, wit, and glamour can be magically transferred from person to person, and where a great war has been fought to preserve the earth and all mankind.
Eight years after the events of The Lair of Bones, the world is healing from the fierce battles between the inhuman reavers and the Earth King, a man imbued with the power to unleash the forces of the earth. Gaborn Val Orden, the first Earth King in two thousand years, has been traveling in strange lands far from his home, and has finally succumbed to the accelerated aging that comes from all of the endowments he has taken. His death signals the end of a golden age of peace, for with it, darkness descends upon the world as Shadoath, the supernatural One True Master, attacks, aided by her servant Asgaroth—a demon who makes his home in evil hearts.
These forces have discovered that Fallion, Gaborn’s nine-year-old son, is the resurrection of the immortal torch-bearer, whose potential power is so great that he might be able to reorder the universe, binding the shadow worlds into one perfect whole. Fallion must be controlled, and failing that, destroyed.
Though he is only a child, Fallion is Crown Prince of Mystarria. He must flee to the desolate Ends of the Earth to avoid the destruction of all that his father accomplished. Haunted by a demonic curse, he will face terrors no child should ever see, and shoulder burdens no child should ever bear, while coming to grips with a destiny set ages before his birth…. (Approx. 384 pp.) 2006.
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