Аннотация
Fortress of Owls
C.J. Cherryh
To my editor, Caitlin,
whose belief in this story carried it to print—
To Jane,
who patiently read and remarked, version after version—
And to Beverly,
who compiled the constantly growing lexicon out of all these pages—
Thank you
PROLOGUE
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 north-land, allies whose magic was not taught, but innate. These were the five Sihhë-lords.
In the st...
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