The Monster of Karth has risen once more. Quin Tern of Azbar has met his
fate, and his council has borne the price of crossing Raz i'Syul Arro.
Now, as the cruel walls of the city fade into the winter storms at his
back, Raz rides north, seeking to take the High Priest Talo Brahnt up on
an offer he never should have refused. The path Raz has chosen, though,
is a bloody one, and before long he and his new companions find
themselves pitted against hardships they can neither anticipate nor
ignore. As man and snow and beast alike rise up to block their path, it
seems almost as though the North itself has woken to wage war against
the Monster.
And yet, Raz's greatest challenge still looms ahead. Far to the north,
like a plague beneath the trees, Glraht Baoill, Kayle of the savage
mountain tribes, leads his armies further east with each passing day. He
has set his hungry gaze upon the reaches of Cyurgi' Di, the High
Citadel, and desires nothing more than to see it razed from the face of
the world, offering it and its blasphemous "false-prophets" up as
sacrifice to his Stone Gods. Syrah Brahnt, the High Priest's adopted
daughter and prot'g', has found him out, discovering his plan to lay
siege to her home, cutting her and the rest of the Laorin off from the
world. As it is, though, there is little and less that she can do, and
when the first of the Kayle's generals reaches the base of the mountain
pass, Syrah is left with only one option. In the end, she will have to
face the wrath of the tribes herself....
Little does she know that the Monster is coming, riding hard to lend her
his blades.
Book three in the critically acclaimed The Wings of War series.
The Wings of War:
Book One: Child of the Daystar
Book Two: The Warring Son
Book Three: Winter's King
