A handful of Messengers brave the night to keep the lines of communication open between the increasingly isolated populace.īut there was a time when the demons were not so bold. A scant few hamlets and half-starved city-states are all that remain of a once proud civilization, and it is only by hiding behind wards, ancient symbols with the power to repel the demons, that they survive. Each night, the world is overrun by demons-bloodthirsty creatures of nightmare that have been hunting and killing humanity for over 300 years. Humanity has been brought to the brink of extinction. Martin's dazzlingly conceived universe THE WORLD OF ICE AND FIRE is indeed proof that the pen is mightier than a storm of swords. This is the definitive companion volume to George R.R. and Linda Antonsson, has written a comprehensive history of the Seven Kingdoms, featuring the epic battles, bitter rivalries, and daring rebellions that lead up to the events in the bestselling A Song of Ice and Fire series.Ĭollected within this volume is the accumulated knowledge, scholarly speculation, and inherited folk tales of maesters and septons, maegi and singers, including over 170 full-colour illustrations and maps, family trees for the Houses Stark, Lannister and Targaryen, and in-depth explanations of the history and culture of Westeros. At long last, it has arrived with THE WORLD OF ICE AND FIRE. Martin's masterwork-the most inventive and entertaining fantasy saga of our time-warrants one hell of an introduction. If the past is prologue, then George R.R. With hundreds of pages of all-new material from George R.R. The never-before-seen history of Westeros and the lands beyond. In so doing they discover a plot for the Throne of the Crescent Moon that threatens to turn Dhamsawaat, and the world itself, into a blood-soaked ruin. When they learn that the murders and the Falcon Prince's brewing revolution are connected, the companions must race against time-and struggle against their own misgivings-to save the life of a vicious despot. Until she learns that Adoulla and his allies also hunt her father's killer. She lives only to avenge her father's death. Zamia Badawi, Protector of the Band, has been gifted with the near-mythical power of the Lion-Shape, but shunned by her people for daring to take up a man's title. But even as Raseed's sword is tested by ghuls and manjackals, his soul is tested when he and Adoulla cross paths with the tribeswoman Zamia. Raseed bas Raseed, Adoulla's young assistant, a hidebound holy warrior whose prowess is matched only by his piety, is eager to deliver God's justice.
But when an old flame's family is murdered, Adoulla is drawn back to the hunter's path. Three score and more years old, he has grown weary of hunting monsters and saving lives, and is more than ready to retire from his dangerous and demanding vocation. It is up to a handful of heroes to learn the truth behind these killings:ĭoctor Adoulla Makhslood, "The last real ghul hunter in the great city of Dhamsawaat," just wants a quiet cup of tea.
In the midst of this brewing rebellion a series of brutal supernatural murders strikes at the heart of the Kingdoms. The Crescent Moon Kingdoms, land of djenn and ghuls, holy warriors and heretics, Khalifs and killers, is at the boiling point of a power struggle between the iron-fisted Khalif and the mysterious master thief known as the Falcon Prince.
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