Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Just started The Black Gryphon, book #1 of The Mage Wars Trilogy by Mercedes Lackey

Just started The Black Gryphon, book #1 of The Mage Wars Trilogy by Mercedes Lackey.

In Prehistory, over a thousand years before the Founding of Valdemar in a time when magic obeyed different laws, different rules, the Tayledras and Shin'a'in were one people: the Kaled'a'in who in the time of the apocalyptic Mage Wars served Urtho, the Mage of Silence. This is the story of Skandranon Rashkae, legend of Clan k'Leshya, and his battle with Ma'ar, Mage of Dark Flames, who two millennia hence would under a different name trouble Elspeth and Darkwind.

Star-Eyed strike me but this will be fun! Fantasy books always are, but I have a special place in my heart for the works of Mercedes Lackey. My simple concern and hope (yes, they are one), which I am certain will come true, is that this book – indeed the whole series – will revolve around the Kaled'a'in proverb "Whatever is prepared for never occurs." Goodness knows I have barely begun and already another of their saying has basically come to pass: "Never look behind you, there may be an arrow gaining."

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