An unlikely group of companions find themselves in the midst of border skirmishes between the Goblins of the Ragged Hills and the Kingdom of Northmand.
However, the conflict is the least of their worries when they discover an ancient machine that heralds coming doom for the whole continent.
Soon they are on a dangerous thousand-mile trek to a nation under siege where the real journey can begin. More
A wizard fleeing his past, an honor guardsman desperately seeking allies for his besieged homeland, a dwarven dragon-servant, and an outlaw laying low are caught up in the beginnings of a war between the Goblins of the Ragged Hills and the Kingdom of Northmand.
They soon find themselves caught up in ever-larger affairs - a thousand mile journey through forest and wilderness, through the burning ruins of a nation, caught up in the affairs of dragons and abominations of the watery deeps, of feuding clans and the echoing doom of a long-extinct race.
Before long they are caught in the midst of a war between the noble nation of the Crystal Towers and the Necromancer of the Ashen Tower, witness to the horrors of the Rising Plague and the Corpse Ramp - all while carrying the knowledge that the doom of an extinct race is returning, falling from the skies...
on Oct. 07, 2011 :
Truly epic feel with well developed characters and internal strife based on character history. Well thought out world. Excellent read!
(reviewed within a month of purchase)