The battle may be over, but war is coming… When Jimmy the Hand, a young thief in the Guild of Mockers, upsets an assassination attempt on Arutha, a sinister plot is uncovered.Īs the dead rise and assassins stalk the darkness, Arutha must rally the Kingdom forces swiftly if he is to save his beautiful princess felled by a poisoned arrow on her wedding day, and prevent a madman from destroying Midkemia. With the Kingdom of the Isles at peace, Prince Arutha can at last look forward to marrying the Princess Anita in the city of Krondor.īut the capital in the west harbours many shadows. I was once an orphaned kitchen boy, with no family and no prospects, but I am destined to become a master magician… I longed to train as a warrior and fight alongside our duke like my foster-brother, but when the time came, I was not offered that choice. War had come to the Kingdom of the Isles, and in the years that followed it would scatter my friends across the world. The world had changed even before I discovered the foreign ship wrecked on the shore below Crydee Castle, but it was the harbinger of the chaos and death that was coming to our door.
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