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Continuing the powerful epic that started with THE STORMCALLER; the Lord Isak is dead, his armies and entire tribe in disarray. It falls to King Emin to continue the war alone, and the Menin are only too happy to meet his challenge. In Byora, Ruhen is developing his Saviour persona. The Harlequins start preaching in his name and many of the pilgrims who flock to him are recruited to be Children, disciples who spread Ruhens message. All over the Land people are starting to see Ruhen as the answer to their troubles. A showdown is coming: battle lines are finally drawn and the atrocities quickly mount. The spectre of the Great War looms, but in this age the Gods cannot and will not come to King Emins aid. With the peoples of the Land turning against Emin and his few remaining allies, their only chance for survival lies in the hands of a dead man.
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Also by Tom Lloyd from Gollancz:
The Stormcaller
The Twilight Herald
The Grave Thief
The Twilight Herald
The Grave Thief
The Ragged Man
TOM LLOYD
Orion
www.orionbooks.co.uk
A Gollancz eBook
Copyright Tom Lloyd-Williams 2010
All rights reserved.
The right of Tom Lloyd-Williams to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the
Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
First published in Great Britain in 2010 by Gollancz
The Orion Publishing Group Ltd Orion House
5 Upper Saint Martins Lane
London, WC2H 9EA
An Hachette UK Company
This eBook first published in 2010 by Gollancz.
A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
eISBN : 978 0 5750 8886 3
This eBook produced by Jouve, France
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For Fiona, with all my love
Acknowledgements
The biggest thank you must be said to all those who handled the real life side of things so those of us less capable didnt have to - most particularly to my wife, Fiona, and my wonderful in-laws, David and Elizabeth, who worked so hard on the wedding. On top of that, Fi, youre a star for putting up with me day after day - cheerfully living with oddness, forgetfulness, geekery and prog metal. If that doesnt deserve being bought a puppy, I dont know what could.
Many thanks also to Nat, for talking through so much over so many drinks, along with his powers of speed reading that Ive happily abused. Also to Lou Anders for advice, support and braving some rather rough first chapters, my brother Richard, David Devereux and Sara Mulryan for more of the same, and all the happy nutters on the Tom Lloyd forum for their enthusiasm, encouragement, reminders and some of the suggestions. The cannon-mounted flying carpets Im still not convinced about, however, and the shower-scene definitely isnt going to happen.
Robin Morero also deserves recognition for everything hes done on the website, in between nappy changes, as do everyone at Pyr and Gollancz - in particular Jo Fletcher for 
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... decent editing, Gillian for all sorts, and Charlie for putting up with me being repeatedly stupid. But not Simon. He knows why.
, , ... decent editing, Gillian for all sorts, and Charlie for putting up with me being repeatedly stupid. But not Simon. He knows why.
WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE
The Grave Thief
In the aftermath of the firestorm that consumed the city of Scree, it soon becomes clear that Rojaks magic has left a legacy beyond death and destruction. While the followers of Azaer scatter and Isak leads the Farlan Army home, a strange mood takes hold of those remaining outside the city. The citys six principal Gods - Death, Karkarn, Nartis, Vasle, Belarannar and Vellern - are furious at having been driven out of Scree during the citys last days, and their rage badly affects those most closely aligned to them, including the Knights of the Temples and King Emin himself - he had been ordained a priest years before. In their temporary madness, they turn on the civilian survivors and butcher them.
When King Emin returns home to Narkang he is not only guilty about the slaughter he participated in, but distressed by the continuing echoes of Lord Deaths rage, which is still affecting his judgement. He responds to intelligence about Venn, Azaers follower, and the manipulation of Screes population by Rojaks plays, by ordering a mass assassination of the Harlequin clans, only too aware of their potential influence in the Land. Even as he is doing this, Venn is returning home to the clans with the mage Jackdaw bound to his shadow, about to do exactly as Emin fears: to twist the Harlequins purpose and deliver to Azaer a small army of unparalleled warrior-preachers who can erode the authority of the Gods on a Land-wide scale.
King Emins agent, Doranei, discovers the Crystal Skull they recovered from Scree might not have been Azaers goal there, after all - worse still, they might even have done Azaer a favour by killing the Skulls owner, for they left the path clear for Azaers followers to retrieve the journal of Vorizh Vukotic.
In Tirah, as Isaks thoughts grow increasingly morbid, the Yeetatchen white-eye Xeliath arrives in the city, and the trial of Duke Certinse looms. On the first day of the trial a squad of mercenaries break in to the Temple of Law. Although the duke fails to escape, he is able to die fighting, instead of being executed. More worryingly for Isak, when Certinses mother releases a huge daemon, two of Deaths violent Aspects appear from Isaks shadow to kill it before Isak himself can, confirming his fears that he has somehow managed to tear the five Aspects known as the Reapers from Deaths control.
In Byora, Ilumene and Aracnan engineer a meeting between the ruler, Duchess Escral, and a newborn baby, Ruhen, whose body is now inhabited by Azaer. The duchess adopts Ruhen as, far to the north, Venn begins preaching about such a child to the now-susceptible Harlequins, matching his words to Ruhens actions.
Elsewhere in Byora, while the Farlan agent Legana is waiting for Zhia Vukotic to arrive in the city, the Goddess Fate - the Lady - appears to her and makes an unprecedented offer: that Legana should become Fates Mortal-Aspect. After Legana accepts, her first mission is to murder a high priest with undue influence over Duchess Escral - but the mercenary Aracnan beats her to it. He attacks her, trying to hide his crime, and Fate steps in - only to discover, too late, that he owns a Crystal Skull. The Goddess cannot save herself, but she can save her new Mortal-Aspect, and before Aracnan kills her, she throws Legana from the building.
Further south, Lord Styrax, the Menin ruler, crushes the renowned defences of Tor Salan in a single blow and heads north towards the Circle City, determined to bring the trading heart of the West into his empire, whether the rulers of Byora, Akell, Ismess and Fortinn, the quarters that make up the Circle City, want to or not.
Back in Tirah, Isak has called all of the Farlan nobility to his official investiture as Lord of the Farlan. Each must swear allegiance to him. To keep the tribes increasingly troublesome clerics in check he makes a bargain with Cardinal Certinse. Isak has revealed he is dreaming of death at Styraxs hands, so after the ceremony, Mihn goes to question the witch of Llehden. Their conversation results in the witch tattooing magical charms over Mihns body, linking him directly with both Xeliath and Isak.
While Mihn is learning of the afterlife, Vesna is ambushed by fanatics. After he has killed them all, he discovers the ambush was in fact a test, engineered by Karkarn, the God of War, to see if he is indeed the right man for the high honour the God wishes to bestow upon Vesna: to become his own Mortal-Aspect. Vesna, shocked, finds himself unable to make an instant decision.
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