Аннотация
FORTRESS OF DRAGONS
by
C. J. Cherryh
PROLOGUE
A SUMMARY OF FORTRESS IN THE EYE OF TIME,
FORTRESS OF EAGLES, AND
FORTRESS OF OWLS.
There is magic.
There is wizardry.
There is sorcery.
They are not now, nor were then, the same.
Nine hundred years in the past, in a tower, in a place called Galasien, a prince named Hasufin Heltain had an inordinate fear of death. That fear led him from honest study of wizardry to the darker practice of sorcery.
His teacher in the craft, Mauryl Gestaurien, seeing his student about to outstrip his knowledge in a forbidden direction, brought allies from the fabled northland, allies whose magic was not taught, but innate. These were the five Sihhë-lords.
In the storm of conflict that followed, not only Hasufin perished, but also ancient Galasien and all its works. Of all that city, ...
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