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by Janny Wurts


  pronounced: tray-the

  root meaning: traithe – gentleness

  TREY—diminutive of Traithe.

  TRUE SECT—offshoot branch faith of the religion of Light formed after the Great Schism, when the avatar turned apostate to the doctrine in Third Age Year 5683.

  TYSAN—one of the Five High Kingdoms of Athera as defined by the charters of the Fellowship of Seven. Ruled by the s’Ilessid royal line. Device: gold star on blue field.

  pronounced: tie-san

  root meaning: tiasen – rich

  URMALA—town-born croft woman from Kelsing.

  pronounced: ur-ma-la

  root meaning: urmala – cow

  VALENFORD—town located in south Tysan, on the barge route at the River Valendale.

  pronounced: va-len-ford

  root meaning: valen – braided

  VASTMARK—principality located in south-western Shand. Highly mountainous and not served by trade-roads. Its coasts are renowned for shipwrecks. Inhabited by nomadic shepherds and wyverns, non-fire-breathing, smaller relatives of Khadrim. Site of the grand massacre of Lysaer’s war host in Third Age 5647.

  pronounced: vast-mark

  root meaning: vhast – bare; mheark – valley

  VERRAIN—master spellbinder, trained by Luhaine; stood as Guardian of Mirthlvain when the Fellowship of Seven was left short-handed after the conquest of the Mistwraith.

  pronounced: ver-rain

  root meaning: ver – keep; ria – touch; an – one

  original Paravian pronunciation: verria-an

  WARDEN OF ALTHAIN—alternative title for the Fellowship Sorcerer, Sethvir, who received custody of Althain Tower and the powers of the earth-link from the last centaur guardian to leave the continent of Paravia in Third Age Year 5100. Prior to then, the titled post was held by a Paravian.

  WAYSTONE—spherical-cut amethyst used by the Koriathain to channel the full power of all enchantresses in their order, lost during the great rebellion that threw down the rule of the high kings, and recovered from Fellowship custody by Lirenda in Third Age Year 5647. Currently useless to the order, due to Arithon’s arranged sabotage, which has infiltrated a stray iyat into the stone’s matrix in 5671.

  WESTLANDS—originally a term for the western kingdoms of Tysan, Havish, and West Shand. Evolved to mean a specific set of mannered customs mostly practised in Tysan after the great uprising that threw down the high kings in Third Age Year 5015.

  WHITEHOLD—city located on the shore of Eltair Bay, Kingdom of Melhalla.

  Acknowledgments

  My grateful thanks and steadfast appreciation goes to the following individuals for their invaluable support and assistance:

  Jeff Watson, Andrew Ginever, Lynda-Marie Hauptman, Gale Skipworth, Charles Whipple, Angus Bickerton, Teri Wiegand, Stefan Raets and Sandra Jacobs

  Jonathan Matson

  Emma Coode, Sarah Hodgson, Jane Johnson and all of the Voyager Crew

  and above all, my husband, Don Maitz, whose constant love and unflagging support exceeds all words.

  By the same author

  Sorcerer’s Legacy

  The Cycle of Fire Trilogy

  Stormwarden

  Keeper of Keys

  Shadowfane

  The Master of Whitestorm

  That Way Lies Camelot

  To Ride Hell’s Chasm

  The Wars of Light and Shadow

  The Curse of the Mistwraith

  The Ships of Merior

  Warhost of Vastmark

  Fugitive Prince

  Grand Conspiracy

  Peril’s Gate

  Traitor’s Knot

  Stormed Fortress

  With Raymond E. Feist

  Daughter of the Empire

  Servant of the Empire

  Mistress of the Empire

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  Copyright © Janny Wurts 2011

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

  A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

  ISBN: 978-0-00-721782-3

  EPub Edition © 2011 ISBN: 9780007384471

  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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