Enchanter: Book Two of the Axis Trilogy
Epic fantasy in the tradition of Trudi Canavan, Fiona McIntosh and Robert Jordan. Sara Douglass returns us to a world in the grip of prophecy and war …‘Welcome Axis, into the House of SunSoar and into my heart… Sing well and fly high and may nothing and no-one tear your feet from the path of the Star Dance again.’Axis has fled to Talon Spike, the home of the Icarii, where he must learn to wield his Enchanter powers to fulfil the Prophecy.Somehow he must lead the Icarii and the Avar back into Achar, defeat his half-brother Borneheld and reunite the former kingdom of Tencendor under his rule.Meanwhile, Gorgrael waits impatiently for winter, to continue his destructive drive into the heart of Achar…
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SARA DOUGLASS
Enchanter
Book Two of The Axis Trilogy
HarperVoyager An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF
First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 1998
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Copyright © Sara Douglass 1996
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The Axis trilogy continues for Lynne, Tim and
Frances, with a nod and a smile for Pachelbel,
whose haunting Canon in D provided the
background for the writing of Enchanter.
Enchanter is the axis, and it remembers Elinor, who died when she and I were far too young.
Courage my Soul, now learn to wield
The weight of thine immortal Shield.
Close on thy Head thy Helmet bright.
Ballance thy Sword against the Fight.
See where an Army, strong as fair,
With silken Banners spreads the air.
Now, if thou bee’st that thing Divine,
In this day’s Combat let it shine:
And shew that Nature wants an Art
To conquer one resolved Heart.
ANDREW MARVELL,
“A Dialogue Between The Resolved Soul, and Created Pleasure”
Contents
Copyright
Prologue: The Ruins of Gorkenfort
2. Talon Spike
3. The Wolven
6. New Responsibilities, Old Friends
11. “Are You True?” Asketh the Bridge
12. “I Will Lead You Back into Tencendor!”
13. Dinner at the Tired Seagull
14. Through the Mountain Passes
15. Beltide
17. The Audience
18. Through the Fortress Ranges
19. The Alaunt
22. Azhure’s Dilemma
24. The Patrol
25. Star Gate
26. Gorgrael Makes a New Friend
28. The GateKeeper
29. Caelum
31. WolfStar’s Story
33. Forgotten Vows
34. Parley
37. Yuletide
38. The Nursery
40. “Woe! Woe!”
44. “It is Time to Reforge Tencendor”
45. Bad News
46. Contemplations of a Rag Doll
47. Carlon
52. Battle Eve
54. The Aftermath
55. MorningStar
56. One Nors Woman Wins, Another Loses
58. Transformations
59. Shattered Vows
60. Tencendor on the Shores of Grail Lake
62. Into Spiredore
63. From Out of the Dawning Sun …
64 Azhure (1)
65 Azhure (2)
66 Enchantress
Glossary
About the Author
About the Publisher
A day will come when born will be
Two babes whose blood will tie them.
That born to Wing and Horn will hate
The one they call the StarMan.
Destroyer! rises in the north
And drives his Ghostmen south;
Defenceless lie both flesh and field
Before Gorgrael’s ice.
To meet this threat you must release
The StarMan from his lies,
Revive Tencendor, fast and sure
Forget the ancient war,
For if Plough, Wing and Horn can’t find
The bridge to understanding,
Then will Gorgrael earn his name
And bring Destruction hither.
StarMan, listen, heed me well,
Your power will destroy you
If you should wield it in the fray
’Ere these prophecies are met:
The Sentinels will walk abroad
’Til power corrupt their hearts;
A child will turn her head and cry
Revealing ancient arts;
A wife will hold in joy at night
The slayer of her husband;
Age-old souls, long in cribs,
Will sing o’er mortal land;
The remade dead, fat with child
Will birth abomination;
A darker power will prove to be
The father of salvation.
Then waters will release bright eyes
To form the Rainbow Sceptre.
StarMan, listen, for I know
