Аннотация
Ellen Dodge Severson
Hederick, The Theocrat
This book is lovingly dedicated
to the memory of
William Olm
and Max Earl Porath
Prologue
Astinus, leader of the Order of Aesthetics, surveyed the three apprentice scribes before him. The historian's face, as usual, wore the expression of a man taken unwillingly from his beloved work for something annoyingly trivial.
The three scribes, a middle-aged woman and two younger men, shifted from foot to foot beneath his gaze and darted cau shy;tious glances at each other. Each was sure the other two pos shy;sessed extraordinary training and expertise. Each was sure that it was his or her mere presence in the Great Library ofPalanthas that had brought the dissatisfied gleam to Astinus's eyes. They all were convinced that their own appointments as apprentices to the premier historian on Krynn would soon be found to be a mistake. All that work, all those years of preparation and study, would be found i...
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