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Waylander
The
Drenai king is dead - murdered by a ruthless assassin. Enemy
troops swarm in to Drenai lands. Their orders are simple - kill
every man, woman and child.
But there is hope. Stalked by men who
act like beasts and beasts that walk like men, the warrior
Waylander must journey into the shadow-haunted lands of the Nadir
to find the legendary Armour of Bronze.
With this he can turn the tide.But
can he be trusted?
For he is Waylander the slayer. The
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Waylander II
....In The Realm Of The Wolf
High
in the wooded, peaked mountains of Skeln, the woodsman, Dakeyras,
and his beautiful daughter Miriel,live a life of harmonious
solitude. Unbeknown to them, a group of grim-eyed, bloodthirsty
warriors stalk the mountains.Men who have never known defeat, to
whom revenge and torture are meat and drink. For ten thousand in
gold they are eager to kill the woodsman.
Battle-hardened warriors all, they
have no fear of this task - they should have. For Miriel is a
woman of fire and iron,skilled with bow and blade and taught her
skills by one of the deadliest killers of all time...
...Her father, Dakeyras, better
known as...WAYLANDER
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WAYLANDER III
The
ruined city of Kuan Hador reeks of dark mystery. Shunned by
brigands and merchants alike, it is home to fearsome wild things
and legends that freeze the blood--tales that speak of a time
thousands of years past, when Kuan Hador was the capital of a vast
empire ruled by evil sorcerers. These mages were able to meld
beasts and men into unholy Joinings--foot soldiers of a ruthless
demonic army. When the forces of men finally did prevail, the
sorcerers and their half-human slaves escaped through a magical
doorway . . . only to find themselves trapped in another world.
The doorway sealed behind them, locked with an enchantment too
powerful to break. Or so the legends say.But at the heart of every
legend lies a glimmer of truth, and truth can kill. Especially
when it comes in the form of slavering white beasts who possess an
insatiable appetite for death and destruction. Millennia have
passed, and the spell of imprisonment has begun to fade. The
sorcerers and their foul minions will soon be free to wreak a
horrible vengeance against all that lives.This time, no army waits
to oppose them--only a rag-tag group of unlikely heroes: Kysumu,
the rajnee swordsman; Yu Yu Liang, a humble ditch digger with
dreams of glory; Taliana, a warrior woman as fierce as she is
beautiful. Leading them is the mysterious Gray Man, an enigmatic
figure hated and envied for his fabulous wealth. A man with a
blood-drenched past, who has killed for principle and for payment.
A man of destiny known throughout the lands of the Drenai as
Waylander the Slayer.Now, to defeat a timeless evil, an ancient
riddle must be solved . . . and Waylander, the prince of
assassins, must kill a man who cannot die. |
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The First Chronicles Of
Druss The Legend
Druss.
The Legend. Saviour of Skeln Pass. Protector of Dros Delnoch.
The most famous - and dreaded of
Drenai's heroes.
But before all men knew Druss he was
a young husband, hewing trees instead of men - most of the time -
and held in check
by his beloved Rowena.When she is
stolen by slavers Druss becomes a killing machine intent on only
one thing:
Rowena's return.
Druss The Legend , the man, the
battle, the hero.. |
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The Legend of Deathwalker
Under
the brutal oppression of the Gothir, the nadir tribes dream of the
Uniter, the Great One, who will bring the tribes together, and end
their centuries of torment. But for one man it is more than a
dream.
Talisman, a mysterious and enigmatic
Nadir warrior, rides out to the shrine of Oshikai Demon-bane,
seeking the legendary eyes of Alchazzar, twin jewels of enormous
power that will light the path to the Uniter. With him rides the
beautiful Zhusai, a mystic tormented by the ghost of a long dead
Nadir queen.
But other desire the secrets of the
jewels,Garen-Tsen, the sadistic power behind the Gothir throne,
belives the magical gems will lead him to glory, and sends the
elite soldiers of the Gothir army to sack the shrine, and butcher
the few defenders. They cannot lose: five thousand men against a
handful of savages and a renegade Drenai warrior.
But the savages are led by one of the
most brilliant strategists of the day. And the renegade is Druss
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Legend
........The Legend
Druss,
Captain of the axe: The stories of his life were told everywhere.
Instead of the wealth and fame he could of have claimed, he had
chosen a mountain lair, high in the lonely country bordering on
the clouds. There the grizzled old warrior kept company with snow
leopards and awaited his old enemy death.
The Fortress..
Mighty Dros Delnoch, protected by six
outer walls, the only route by which an army could pass through
the mountains. It was the last battleground, for all else had
fallen before the Nadir hordes.
And hope rested on the skills of
that one old man... |
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King Beyond The Gate
A
century after the heroic defence of Dros
Delnoch, the people of the Drenai face a new terror - a mad
emperor kept in power by the Joinings, werebeasts of awesome
power, and the Dark Templars, priests of Darkness and warriors
without equal: two forces of unsurpassed evil.
One man, an outsider hated by the
Drenai for his Nadir blood, and despised by the Nadir for his
Drenai ancestry, sets out to destroy the emperor: He is one man
against the armies of chaos.
He is Tenaka Khan - the Prince of
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Quest For Lost Heroes
The
Drenai fortress of Dros Delnoch has fallen and blood hungry hordes
sweep acress the land, bringing desolation and despair. But, with
the Nadir triumphant, slavers seize a young girl in the tiny realm
of Gothir and a peasant boy sets off on a quest that will shake
the world.
To rescue her, Kiall must cross the
savage steppes and journey through the halls of hell, facing
ferocious beasts, deadly warriors and demons of the dark.
But the boy is not alone. With him
are the legendary heroes of Bel-azar: Chareos the Blademaster,
Beltzer the Axeman and the bowmen Finn and Maggrig. And one among
them hides a secret that could free the world of Nadir domination.
For he is the Nadir Bane, the hope of the Drenai. .........He is
the Earl of Bronze ... |
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Winter Warriors
The
prophecy was clear. Upon the death of three kings the world will
be plunged into chaos, and all the cast-out demons of history will
return to bring blood and horror to the world.
Two of the kings are dead. The third,
about to be born, is hunted by Demon Riders of the Krayakin, Lord
of the Undead. All the terrifying forces of evil range agaist a
pregnant queen at bay in a haunted forest. But she is not alone.
Three warriors stand with her: the last remnants of the once proud
Drenai army. Three old men, acient heroes, descarded by the king;
Nogusta the swordsman, Kebra the bowman, and the hulking fighter,
Bison.
The fate of the empires rest on their
fading skills as they journey through a tormented world on a
perilous quest to save the unborn king. |
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Omnibus Edition
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Graphic Novel
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Drenai Tales i
Legend, King beyond the gate,
Waylander
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Drenai Tales ii
Quest for Lost Heroes,
Waylander 2 (In the Realm of the Wolf), The First Chronicles of
Druss the Legend |
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due for publishing October 2002
Drenai Tales iii
The Legend of Deathwalker,
Winter Warriors, Hero in Shadows
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White Wolf
(proposed release
2003)
The next project is going to be
a new drenai novel called White Wolf set in the years after the
Battle of Skeln, but before the siege of Dros Delnoch. The hero is a
man named Skilgannon, who carried the demon possessed Swords of
Night and Day. Druss the Legend will feature in the story, but not
as the lead. [Having said that Druss tends to be a man who creates
his own agendas, so it will be hard to hold him back] |
The Sipstrassi Tales
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Ghost King
Rebellion
and invasion plunge Brittania into the Dark Ages.
Chaos and terror stalk the land, the
king slain by traitors, the great sword of power vanished beyond
the circle of mist.
Saxons, Angles, Jutes and Brigante
tribesmen mass together to destroy the realm, aided by the powers
of the Witch Queen and the Lord of the Undead.
Against them stands a weakling boy,
and a old mountain warrior.But the boy has the blood of kings and
the warrior is Culain, the legendary Lord of the Lance.
And he alone knows the dread secret
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Last Sword of Power
The
soul of Uther Pendragon is chained in hell.
The sword of power is lost in the
swirling chaos.
The realm is under threat from
barbarian hordes - led by an Undead god from the vaults of
pre-history.
And a new Dark Age is dawning over
Roman Britain.
Then comes a man called Revelation,
seeking a child born of a demon...Seeking the legendary Lord of
the Lance... Seeking the sword to save the realm.
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The
Jerusalem Man The Jon Shannow Tales
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Wolf In Shadow
It
is three hundred years since the world toppled on its axis and
civilisation was destroyed.
In this savagely reshaped world ruled
by brigands and war makers, a rider seeks a lost city. Pursuing a
dream to calm the violence in his soul, Jon Shannow the brigand
slayer, desires only peace. But from the plague Lands emerges a
fresh terror.
The Lord of the Pit and his Hellborn
army seek to plunge mankind into a new Satanic era. Seemingly
invincible, they make a fatal mistake. They take Shannows woman
for a blood sacrifice.
And find themselves facing the
deadliest warrior of the new age. Jon Shannow - the Jerusalem Man.
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Bloodstone
The
tyrannical rule of the Deacon and his Jerusalem Riders has
unleashed upon the world a sea of bigotry and hatred, where
Unbelivers and Mutants are massacred in the name of God and Peace.
And the long-vanished Jerusalem Man is now considered a saint of
the new order.
To speak ill
of his memory is heresy.
But when the church in Pilgram's
Valley is burnt to the ground, its congregation slaughtered, a
rider appears and hunts down the killers. And word spreads - The
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The Last Guardian
While
the earth quaked, a deadly power burst forth from ancient
Atlantis. For a gate of time had been torn open, freeing a
cataclysmic evil.
Only the last guardian, Jon Shannow,
the legendary pistoleer, could shut the deadly portal. But to
accomplish this he would have to find the shining Sword of God,
said to be floating among the clouds in the perilous lands beyond
the wall, where beasts walk like men and worship a dark goddess.
As Shannow embarked on his impossible quest, demons gathered in
wait.
And- somewhere- a golden-haired woman
was dreaming of blood...
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The Hawk Queen
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Ironhands Daughter
After
the bloody battle of Colden Moor the warlike highlanders had lost
their indepence.
They lived in surly subservience to
the Outlanders, and olny a teenage girl survived to represent the
line of kings: Sigarni.
Sigarni the silver-haired. Huntress,
whore, princess. All of these she was called. But those who pierce
the veil of the future knew that a leader was coming to the North
- a leader descended from Ironhand, mightiest of highland kings...
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The Hawk Eternal
While
the warlike and heartless Aenir ravage the territory outside the
mountain fastness of the clans, Sigarni, the Hawk Queen, arrives
in the alternate version of her own universe through a gate in
space and time. Taliesen, last of the gate keppers, has no idea
why she has arrived but knows that heroes are needed...
Only Caswallon, loner, warrior and
thief, realies the true extent of the danger and the horrors that
his people are to face. As Taliesen tries to discover Sigarni
purpose, Caswallon must unite the clans to overcome their greatest
peril.
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Greek Themed
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Lion of Macedon
He
is Parmenion. A hated outsider, he must fight the hardened heroes
of Sparta.
He will survive. Dark forces have
marked out his destiny as the most fearsome warlord the world has
known.,br. He is the Lion of Macedon. The man they call death of
nations will reshape the glory of Greece before he faces the wrath
of hell...
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Dark Prince
The
Lion of Macedon - strategos, Parmenion. a lone hero in search of
salvation and finding, instead, destiny.
The Dark Prince - the child who will
become Alexander, creator of the greatest empire the world has
ever known. He will conquer all. All except the Chaos spirit, the
immortal evil that dwells in his soul.
Together they will be forced into
other dimensions, across time, into enchanted worlds full of
wonder and sorcery...
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The Rigante
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Sword In The Storm
Deep
in the green mountain lands of the Rigante lies the settlement of
Three Streams, whose people worship the gods of Air and Water, and
the spirits of the Earth. Among them lives a boy whose destiny is
written in starlight. He is Connavar, the Demonblade, born in a
storm that doomed his father.
A man with the makings of greatness
will always have enemies and from the start of this epic chronicle
it is prophesied that the Armies of Stone will one day cross the
water ... and that their coming will be like an avalanche.
Even as that terrible time draws
near, another story is told. One that links the price of glory
with the loss of a witch's powers, and with the abiding hurt of a
broken promise. Here the strangest forces, wise and evil, play
their allotted part - from the Ghost General and the malignant
Morrigu to the Woods whose magic harks back to a world before the
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Midnight Falcon
They
call him Bane the Bastard - though none say it to his face. Born
of treachery, his name a curse, the young boy grew to manhood
among the warriors of the Rigante. They valued his skills in war,
but they feared the violence in his heart.
And when, as a wolfshead and outlaw,
he left Rigante lands, they breathed sighs of relief.
But Bane would return, the destiny of
the Rigante in his hands, the fate of the world resting on his
skills with a blade.
Midnight Falcon continues the tale of
the Rigante which began in sword in the Storm, and tells the epic
story of Bane, the bastard son of Connavar the King, and his quest
for vengeance in a world of blood, honour, betrayal and love.
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Ravenheart
Eight hundred years have passed
since Connavar.Beaten but unbowed live the Rigante. Legendary men
still walk the mountains of the north, men such as Jaim Greymauch a
giant Rigante fighter. The other Kaelin Ring, a youth whose deadly
talents are rapidly bringing him to the atention of the Varlish
overlords.
One will become Ravenheart an outlaw leader.
The other will forge a new legend and light the fires of rebellion.
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Stormrider
The fourth in
the Rigante series. The Moidart now rules the Rigante with an iron
fist . Only the northern clansmen are free and are strengthened by
the bold outlaw Ravenheart. To the south civil war rages drenching
the land in blood, with the armies slowly creeping north.
There waits Ravenheart
who believes that the army of the Moidart will follow lead by his
son Stormrider.
Ravenheart &
Stormrider two warriors whose fate's are intertwined, both haunted
by thier past, both are clansmen , both now await the final destiny
of thiers & the Rigante heritage. |
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Knights of Dark Renown
The
Knights of the Gabala have vanished through a demon-haunted
gateway between worlds, and evil days have fallen upon the realm.
Murder and dark magic are abroad in the capital and the knights of
dread powers surround the king.
As the horror grows there comes a
rider, seeking the lost wizard Ollathair, seeking an end to his
own torment. he is Manannan, the coward-knight of the Gabala who
betrayed his friends in their quest to distroy the essence of
evil. As the storm clouds of war gather, he rides to the Forest of
the Ocean and prepares to face his darkest fears. For he must pass
alone through the gates of Hell and face the truth awaiting hin
there. Monsters and werebeasts, vampyres and deamons, all these he
must meet with his shining sword - only to learn the secret that
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Morningstar
As
the Angostin battle hordes surge over the southern borders of the
highlands, the bandit, Jarek Mace, and his friend, the magicker
and bard Owen Odellfind themselves in a country in desperate need
of heroes. The invaders have no respect for persons or places,
stealing and laying waste everthing in their path. Behind them
sorcery is unleashed as a mad necromancer brings back to halflife
the eons dead vampyre kings.
Only Mace has the courage to stand up
to the Angostins and the Undead: soon he is hailed as a figure of
myth, the legendary Morningstar come to save his people once more.
But only one person realy knows Mace; Odell remembers how the now
famous badit was once but a thief and a philanderer who would as
soon cut a purse string or a throat for the price of a meal.
As the final climactic battle
approaches and strange manifestations occur Odell wonders which of
the two Maces will triumph: the self-serving thief or the saviour
of his people, the Morningstar. |
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Dark Moon
The
peaceful Eldarin were the last three ancient races. The mystical
Oltor, healers and poets, had fallen before the dread power of the
cruel and sadistic Daroth. Yet in one awesome night the invincible
daroth had vanished from the face of the earth. Gone were their
cities, their armies, their terror. The Great Northern Desert was
their only legacy. Not a trace remained for a thousand years...
The War of the Pearl had raged for
seven years and the armies of the four Duchies were exhausted and
weary of bloodshead. But the formost of the Dukes, Sirani of
Romark, possessed the Eldarin Pearl and was determined to unravel
its secrets.
Then, on one unforgettable day, a
dark moon rose above the Great northern Desert, and a black tidal
wave swept across the land. In moments the desert had vanished
beneath lush fields and forests and a great city could been seen
glittering in the morning sunlight.From this city re-emerged the
blood-hungry Daroth, powerful and immortal, immune to spear and
sword. They had only one desire: to rid the world of humankid
forever. Now the fate of the human race rests on the talents of
three heroes: Karis, warrior woman and strategist; Tarantio, the
deadliest swordsman of the age; and Duvodas the healer, who will
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Echo's Of The Great Song
They
were immortal, and lived like kings - even though their empire was
dying. Conceited and selfish, the Avatars ruled the fallen world
through magic and arcane science.
But then two moons appeared in the
sky, and a terrible enemy breached the gateway between the worlds.
the blood-hungry armies of the
Crystal Queen swarmed across the land, bringing devastation and
terror and leaving in their wake a mountain of sacrificed dead.
as the citys faced imminent
destruction, three heroes set out to destroy the enemy. Talaban, a
warrior haunted by tragedy, Touchstone, the mystic tribesman
seeking his lost love, and Anu, the Holy One, the Builder of Time.
And when all seemed lost, two others
entered the fray.
Sofarita, the peasant girl who would
inspire a legend, and the madman Viruk, who would become a god.
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White Knight Black Swan
"Bimbo" Jardine is a
special man - a giant legbreaker with a heart of gold, generous to
his friends, feared by his enemies.
Maybe too generous and too feared,
for when Bimbo takes on an Irishman claiming protection money from
a friend, he doesn't realise the Irishman is in the employ of his
own gandland boss Reardon.
With the inevitability of fate, Bimbo
has started a sequence of events which will end in murder,
betrayal, blackmail, and the uncovering of secrets long hidden.
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