Out at the edge of a tottering empire, a traveling scholar has found a man that he believes was once the greatest magician adventurer of recent memory. This man was a brilliant bard, a notable swordsman, and one of the few to master the deepest magic – commanding the structure of reality by calling on things by their True Names. Unfortunately for the scholar, this man is now living incognito as a humble innkeeper, and he refuses to tell his life story to anyone. Only as evidence mounts that an ancient evil is stirring again does he break this silence.
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\nThis is a huge story, or at leas the start<\/i> of a huge story. The tale is mostly in the form of flashbacks, narrated to the scholar, with brief interludes of the character’s present circumstances scattered through the book. In a way, this is disarming; there’s no great worry that the hero will get killed in these adventures – after all he does<\/b> live to tell his tale. On the other hand, there is no guarantee of survival for any of the other people he met in the past…<\/p>\n
Overall, the book is a fun read, and the start of something epic. Hopefully the next volume will be out before too much longer.<\/p>\n
Pages: 662<\/p>\n
Total pages: 9778<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Out at the edge of a tottering empire, a traveling scholar has found a man that he believes was once the greatest magician adventurer of recent memory. This man was a brilliant bard, a notable swordsman, and one of the … Continue reading