Destiny’s Conflict: Book Two of Sword of the Canon. Janny Wurts
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Название: Destiny’s Conflict: Book Two of Sword of the Canon
Автор: Janny Wurts
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Героическая фантастика
isbn: 9780007384426
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HarperVoyager
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First published in Great Britain by HarperVoyager 2017
Copyright © Janny Wurts 2017
Cover illustration © Janny Wurts 2017
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Source ISBN: 9780007310388
Ebook Edition © July 2017 ISBN: 9780007384426
Version: 2018-06-27
Contents
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
Map of the Isles of Min Pierens
—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