Bøger af Kevin Hoffman

Urus Noellor, a young, deaf man once branded as an exile for not living up to the expectations of the warrior society into which he was born, has defeated the Order of the Sanguine Crystal. Now a prisoner of the Council of Balance, he awaits the outcome of a trial that could mean life or death for crimes he didn't even know he committed. For the others left behind on the world of Emys, six months have passed. Cailix has grown attached to her new family on Aldsdowne, though the return of Anderis threatens to destroy her new foundations. Goodwyn and Therren have traveled to the capital city of Niragan to seek aid in rebuilding Waldron in the aftermath of the battles that nearly destroyed the city. All of them are about to be drawn into the rekindling of an ancient feud that threatens to unleash an enemy even more powerful than the blood mages.

Urus Noellor--a boy born deaf who is about to be publicly branded as a burden, incapable of being the warrior his people demand--stands upon a rooftop, poised to throw himself over the edge. His failed attempt at suicide unlocks within him a long-dormant form of magic thought to have died out thousands of years before, a power that may be the key to saving the world from an equally ancient enemy. Urus and his companions--Goodwyn, the greatest warrior in Kest, and Cailix, a mysterious orphan--must find a way to stop a powerful group of sorcerers from destroying the five long-hidden vertices that ward the world against threats from beyond, while fighting off threats from within. They soon learn that the scope of the coming danger may be more dire than any of them could have imagined. As the battle for the vertices spreads to the neighboring realms, Goodwyn must face the realities of war and death; Cailix discovers a devastating truth that could change everything; and Urus discovers his uncanny gifts and courage as he peels away clues to his true identity. But even as Urus gains the power he has always craved, he experiences it all in profound, lonely silence.

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