Through death comes power....
Forbidden law promises that the soul can be harnessed, the magic of life
captured in those final seconds, and used to give strength, power, and
life everlasting. For the one who commands the soul of the dead,
commands death itself. (Yarrow the Great)
The bonds of the Dul'Buhar are eternal....
The land is in the grip of a brutal winter when a desperate cry for help
from one of his former sword brothers draws Akiri and Kyra up into the
mountains beyond Erdogan Pass. But they are too late. Met on the way by
his friend's son, they arrive to find the village ablaze and his sword
brother, Cammeric, his wife and daughter slain, leaving the boy an
orphan. The fell beast that murdered his family is no mere man - it is
the rotten husk of a warrior brought back from the grave and will stop
at nothing to fulfill its master's bidding. Sworn to protect the boy and
avenge his friend, Akiri finds himself hunted across the mountains by
the dead. But for each he slays another rises.
Now, he must turn his back on this world and all he holds dear and
venture into the kingdom of the dead if he is to put an end to the
menace posed by a legendary evil. It's dark magic hungers for one thing:
the soul of the First Dragon. And should he find it, the rise of the
Necromancer will herald an eternal reign of death and darkness.
