Sunday, November 10, 2024

I have finished The Black Gryphon, book #1 of The Mage Wars Trilogy by Mercedes Lackey

Urtho, Mage of Silence.
Creator of the Gryphons.
I have finished The Black Gryphon, book #1 of The Mage Wars Trilogy by Mercedes Lackey.

Who heals the Healer? What is the toll emotional toll behind the lines and beyond loss of life in war? These are questions Lackey answers in the camp of Urtho, the Mage of Silence – by Amberdrake, Kaled'ai'in kestra'chern, Skandranon Rashkae, Zhaneel Winterhart, Gesten, and others. Battling prejudice, guilt, and grief until the Mage Wars reaches its Cataclysmic end – ending Urtho, Ma'ar (mostly), magic-dependent civilizations and the laws of magic itself. (As said Urtho, "Knowledge will always be the best weapon against tyrants." And the best bait.) Bringing the first set of Mage Storms and leaving the magic-twisted, scarred, and strange Pelagirs behind.

History shows that from these ashes will spring the Sundering of the Clans into the Tayledras and Shin'a'in, and eventually, two millennia hence, the meeting of Elspeth, Darkwind, the returned Clan k'Leshya, and Kerowyn. But the story of Skandranon Rashkae and Amberdrake is not over yet, and I for one cannot wait to learn more about Clan k'Leshya in this strange new world.


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