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Janny Wurts
STORMED FORTRESS
The Wars of Light and Shadow
VOLUME 8
FIFTH BOOK OF
THE ALLIANCE OF LIGHT
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2007
Copyright © Janny Wurts 2007
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For three, whose enduring commitment to the literature of the fantastic has enriched so many.
Betty Ballantine
Ellen Datlow
Terri Windling
Contents
Fifth Book
Story Time-line What Has Gone Before
Third Age Year
5637—The half-brothers Arithon s’Ffalenn, Master of Shadow, and Lysaer s’Ilessid, gifted with Light, exiled through West Gate, are met as they arrive on Athera by the Fellowship Sorcerer Asandir and Dakar, the Mad Prophet, whose West Gate Prophecy forecast the defeat of the Mistwraith, Desh-thiere, and return of the sunlight that had been lost to Athera for five hundred years.
Arithon meets his beloved, Elaira, who is under a life vow of service to the celibate order of the enchantresses of the Koriathain.
5638—The