Both face battle, moral conflicts, and learn new things about themselves, their paths eventually crossing in a land preparing for a new war. Meanwhile, a smith named Declan finishes his masterpiece and heads out into a world increasingly unsettled, with attacks by slavers and a rising monotheism that puts heretics to death. The novel follows the boy Hatushaly some 16 years later as he finishes his training, given to burning anger barely controlled, and unsure why he looks so different and gets special treatment. One of the barons who betrayed him, though, chooses in the end to protect the last surviving Firemane, a baby, sending him to the Coaltachin, a nation of assassins and spies, to be raised in secret. (Harper Voyager US 978-0-06-146845-2, $29.99, 466pp, hc) May 2018.įeist returns with the first volume in the new Firemane fantasy series, centered on a land that was once five kingdoms, until the Betrayal, which saw the king of Ithrace, known as Firemane, betrayed by some allies in a war with a neighboring kingdom.
and they must discover the secret of who truly threatens their world.Raymond E. The legendary, long-ago War of Betrayal has never truly ended. Soon, the two young men-an unknowing rightful heir to a throne and a brilliantly talented young swordsmith-will discover that their fates, and that of Garn, are entwined. Landing in Lord Daylon's provinces, he hopes to start anew.
Yet this precious knowledge is also deadly, and Declan is forced to leave his home to safeguard his life. Blessed with intelligence and skill, he unlocks the secret to forging King's Steel, the apex of a weapon maker's trade known by very few. Years later, another orphan of mysterious provenance, a young man named Declan, earns his Masters rank as a weapons smith. A cunning and patient man, Daylon decides to keep the baby's existence secret, and sends him to be raised on the Island of Coaltachin, home of the so-called Kingdom of Night, where the powerful and lethal Nocusara, the "Hidden Warriors," legendary assassins and spies, are trained. When an abandoned infant is found hidden in Daylon's pavilion, he realizes that the child must be the missing heir of the slain Steveren.
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As war engulfs the world, Ithrace is destroyed and the Greater Realms of Tembria are thrust into a dangerous struggle for supremacy.Īs a Free Lord, Baron Daylon Dumarch owes allegiance to no king. But the balance of power is destroyed when four of the kingdoms violate an ancient covenant and betray the fifth: Ithrace, the Kingdom of Flames, ruled by Steveren Langene, known as "the Firemane" for his brilliant red hair. Feist's epic heroic fantasy series, The Firemane Saga-an electrifying tale of two young men whose choices will determine a world's destiny.įor centuries, the five greatest kingdoms of North and South Tembria, twin continents on the world of Garn, have coexisted in peace. The first volume in legendary master and New York Times bestselling author Raymond E. New York Times Bestsellers - Adult Non-Fiction Audiobooks (Updated Dec.
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