| Summary: |
After ten long years of exile, Sparhawk came home to Elenia to take up his duties as a Pandion Knight and Queen's Champion. It was not a happy homecoming, as he soon learned. His young Queen, Ehlana, was supposedly stricken with a fatal disease-the same as that which had killed King Aldreas, her father. She still lived, but only because of a great sorcery invoked by Sephrenia, ageless instructor in magic to the Pandions. Now she sat on her throne, frozen in a block of crysal, doomed unless a cure could be found within the year. Annias, corrupt and ambitious Primate of the Church in Elenia, had made Ehlana's bastard cousin, the weakling Lycheas, Prince Regent and now ruled through him. By using the kingdom's treasury lavishly, Annias planned to bribe his was to Archprelacy and power over all the land. Only Sephrenia and the Chuch Knights oppose him, and he has dark plans for them. But as Sparhawk and Sephrenia, not accompanied by Flute, an odd girl-child with strange powers, sought to save Ehlana and the land, they discover the evil was greater than they had dreamed. Behind Annias was Azash, the ancient demon-god of Zemoch, whose armies had barely been defeated by the magic and blood of the Church Knights five centuries before. But now the Zemochs were stirring again and Azash was working through Annias and his henchman to destroy the one person in the weat who might defeat hi,. That person, Sephrenia revealed, was Sparhawk! |
Book
