Destiny’s Conflict: Book Two of Sword of the Canon. Janny Wurts

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperVoyager 2017

      Copyright © Janny Wurts 2017

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      Source ISBN: 9780007310388

      Ebook Edition © July 2017 ISBN: 9780007384426

      Version: 2018-06-27

       Dedication

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

      Copyright

      Dedication

      Maps

      Sword of the Canon: Timeline with relevant dates

      I. Duress

II. Entanglement

III. Fissure

IV. Debacle

       V. Misfit

       VI. Interval

       VII. Sidesteps

       VIII. Fifth Upset

       IX. Secrets

       X. Riddle

       XI. Black Dawn

       XII. Exigencies

       XIII. Expedient

       Glossary

       Acknowledgements

       About the Author

       About the Publisher

       Maps

       Map of Tysan

       Map of Rathain

       Map of the Isles of Min Pierens

       Map of Havish

       Map of Melhalla

       Map of Los Lier

       Map of West Shand

       Map of Shand

       Sword of the Canon

       Timeline with relevant dates

      —5671/5672 A rash move: Dakar the Mad Prophet uses his Fellowship authority to attach Rathain’s crown with an oath of debt to the Koriathain, enabling Elaira to make use of the sisterhood’s knowledge to salvage Prince Arithon’s life. While she does invoke her initiate training to recall Arithon’s strayed spirit, she alters a very intricate ritual to create a Grand Confluence, making her healer’s lore adhere to the Major Balance precepts taught by Ath’s adepts. This change based on free will replicates an original, extremely ancient construct, historically stolen from the Biedar tribe by the Koriathain.

      —The Biedar crone on Athera intervenes: through Elaira’s alteration, she seizes a thread of the working, and when the subsequent conception of a child occurs, calls the spirit of one of her tribal ancients to be reincarnated as Arithon’s daughter, born to Glendien at Althain Tower.

      —Interim events following Stormed Fortress

      —5672 Birth of Teylia to Glendien at Althain Tower.

      —Elaira returns to the Koriathain under summons.

      —5674 Arithon is betrayed and taken captive by the Koriathain, ignorant of Dakar’s oath of debt to the crown, since all that occurred at Athir to save him was kept secret.

      —Pressured by the Prime’s threat to Elaira’s life as leverage to break him, СКАЧАТЬ