The Chaoswar Saga: A Kingdom Besieged, A Crown Imperilled, Magician’s End
Return to a world of magic and adventure from bestselling author Raymond E. Feist. This bundle includes the complete Chaoswar Saga.The bundle includes: A Kingdom Besieged, A Crown Imperilled, Magician’s End.A KINGDOM BESIEGED: The Darkness is coming…The Kingdom is plagued by rumour and instability. Kingdom spies in Kesh have been disappearing – either murdered, or turned to the enemy side. Information has become scant and unreliable; but one thing appears clear. Dark forces are on the move…A CROWN IMPERILLED: War rages in Midkemia but behind the chaos there is disquieting evidence of dark forces at work.Lord Hal of Crydee and his great friend Ty Hawkins, champion swordsman of the Masters’ Court, are entrusted with the task of smuggling Princess Stephané and her lady-in-waiting, the lovely but mysterious Lady Gabriella, out of Roldem to a place of greater safety. But is there any safe haven to be found?MAGICIAN’S END: The dragons are calling…Civil war is tearing apart the Kingdom of the Isles, for the throne lies empty and rivals are converging. Hal – now Duke of Crydee – must turn his attention to the defence of the ancient realm so that a king can be anointed by the Congress of Lords, rather than by right of might.
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RAYMOND E. FEIST
THE CHAOSWAR SAGA
A Kingdom Besieged, A Crown Imperilled, Magician’s End
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A Kingdom Besieged First Published in Great Britain by HarperVoyager 2011. Copyright © Raymond E. Feist. Cover Layout Design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2011
A Crown Imperilled First Published in Great Britain by HarperVoyager 2012. Copyright © Raymond E. Feist. Cover Layout Design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2012
Magician’s End First Published in Great Britain by HarperVoyager 2013. Copyright © Raymond E. Feist. Cover Layout Design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2013
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Source ISBNs:
A Kingdom Besieged: 9780007264766 A Crown Imperilled: 9780007264827 Magician’s End: 9780007264797
Bundle Edition (Containing A Kingdom Besieged, A Crown Imperilled and Magician’s End) © November 2014 ISBN: 9780008113728
Version: 2018-08-14
Contents
RAYMOND E. FEIST
A KINGDOM BESIEGED
This one’s for John and Tammy
Contents
THE SKIES SHRIEKED.
Overhead, a storm of black energies shot out tendrils that reached forth and attached themselves to the first structure they encountered. The sound generated was almost as terrifying as the sight of everything they touched collapsing into rubble.
The inhabitants of the city fled in abject terror, ignoring the plight of others, even family or close friends. Above the onrushing tide of darkness loomed a figure, a thing of such massive size and monstrosity that it lay beyond comprehension.
The remaining King’s Guardians did what they could to oppose the Darkness: but there was little they could achieve against such madness. A female fled through the streets amidst the trampling throng. Fearful of what she might see, she chanced a quick glance behind her and clutched her child to her chest.
Other city residents huddled in doorways, given over to despair, waiting the inevitability of their own destruction, clinging weeping to one another, or staring towards the Centre, whence the Darkness was coming.
From the Time Before Time legends about the Final End had persisted, but these stories were seen as nothing more than metaphors, cautionary tales with which the Elders might teach children so they could contribute usefully to the People during this particular Endurance.
It was said that some Elders had repeated the Endurance so many times that they remembered bits and pieces of previous incarnations and had begun to piece together the plan of everything in the world. It was even whispered that some had ventured into the realms of madness – known as the ‘Other Places’ or ‘the Outside’ – or even to the edge of the Void, and returned, but few credited such reports as anything other than tall tales.
The People rejoiced in their Existence and their Endurance, and when their personal end came they knew it was no more than an interruption of the Eternal Journey.
But what they faced now was the Final End, the termination of the Eternal Journey, and no words existed to express the terror and anguish that assailed them.
The female pushed through a knot of the People clustered at an intersection in the centre of the city’s Eastern Canton. Some had come to seek the Sunrise Gate but having come here did not seem to know what to do next.
