Wild Magic
Fool's Gold 2
1st Edition
Published on 20. November 2014
576 pages
978-1-4711-4144-7 (ISBN)
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Magic has returned to Elda, creating all manner of wonders and terrors. None yet know that the source of this
magic is the legendary Rosa Eldi, restored to the world, but not yet restored to herself. Unaware of her true nature, she has married King Ravn Asharson of the North, and now with usurpers and assassins circling she must conceive a child to establish the succession.
In the Southern Empire, the fire of holy war is smouldering and violence is everywhere, fuelled by fundamentalist hatred and bigotry. Caught up in these machinations, peace-loving Saro Vingo is forced to take up arms against the North; and Virelai, apprentice sorcerer, finds himself chained to the murderous plans of his master, Tycho Issian.
Ignoring his king's call to arms, Aran Aranson, chief of the Rockfall clan, is in the grip of a mad obsession borne of a magical map and dreams of sailing the frozen seas to Sanctuary, island of legend, to find a fortune. His daughter, Katla, dreams of sailing with him; but her fate lies elsewhere. All over Elda, forces are aligning themselves for good or for evil. There is magic in the world again, but it is wild and unpredictable, and few will count its touch a blessing.
magic is the legendary Rosa Eldi, restored to the world, but not yet restored to herself. Unaware of her true nature, she has married King Ravn Asharson of the North, and now with usurpers and assassins circling she must conceive a child to establish the succession.
In the Southern Empire, the fire of holy war is smouldering and violence is everywhere, fuelled by fundamentalist hatred and bigotry. Caught up in these machinations, peace-loving Saro Vingo is forced to take up arms against the North; and Virelai, apprentice sorcerer, finds himself chained to the murderous plans of his master, Tycho Issian.
Ignoring his king's call to arms, Aran Aranson, chief of the Rockfall clan, is in the grip of a mad obsession borne of a magical map and dreams of sailing the frozen seas to Sanctuary, island of legend, to find a fortune. His daughter, Katla, dreams of sailing with him; but her fate lies elsewhere. All over Elda, forces are aligning themselves for good or for evil. There is magic in the world again, but it is wild and unpredictable, and few will count its touch a blessing.
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Jude Fisher is a pseudonym for Jane Johnson, publishing director of HarperCollins' SF imprint, Voyager. She holds two literature degrees, specializing in Anglo Saxon and Old Icelandic texts, and is also a qualified lecturer. For the last twenty years, Jane has been the publisher of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, and is the author of the official Visual Companions to Peter Jackson's movie trilogy of THE LORD OF THE RINGS.
Content
- Intro
- About the Author and Praise for SORCERY RISING, Book One of Fool's Gold
- Also by Jude Fisher
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- What Has Gone Before . . .
- Prologue
- One: Intrigues
- Two: Tanto
- Three: Halbo
- Four: Curse
- Five: The King's Shipmaker
- Six: Exiles
- Seven: Illusions
- Eight: Messages
- Nine: Quietus
- Ten: The Three
- Eleven: From the Depths
- Twelve: The Master
- Thirteen: Ghosts
- Fourteen: The Eternal City
- Fifteen: Bindings
- Sixteen: Survivors
- Seventeen: Seers
- Eighteen: Covenants
- Nineteen: The Long Serpent
- Twenty: Flight
- Twenty-one: Signs and Portents
- Twenty-two: Beasts
- Twenty-three: Sailings
- Twenty-four: Ghosts
- Twenty-five: Among the Nomads
- Twenty-six: Wreckage
- Twenty-seven: Katla
- Twenty-eight: Seafarers
- Twenty-nine: Raiders
- Thirty: Pursuit
- Thirty-one: Sanctuary
- Epilogue
