The Complete Elenium Trilogy: The Diamond Throne, The Ruby Knight, The Sapphire Rose
The complete, classic Elenium Trilogy, the story of the Pandion Knight Sparhawk and his horse Faron, a sleeping queen, and the legendary jewel that can save her . . .Contains:THE DIAMOND THRONE:After a long exile, Pandion Knight Sparhawk returns to his native land to find his young queen grievously ill.Ehlana has been poisoned and will die unless a cure can be found within a year. The life force of twelve of her sworn knights is all that sustains her; but one knight will be lost within the passing of each month if the antidote isn’t found.To save his queen, his comrades, and the stability of the kingdom, Sparhawk begins the search for the cure, only to discover a greater and more pervasive evil than he could ever have imagined.THE RUBY KNIGHT:Time is running out for the poisoned Queen Ehlana. If she is to be saved Sparhawk must find the only cure – a powerful artefact called the Bhelliom – before it’s too late.But finding the rose-shaped sapphire is no simple task. No one has set eyes upon it since it was lost in the heat of a legendary battle.To make matters worse, Sparhawk and his allies are not the only party questing to find the jewel.THE SAPPHIRE ROSESparhawk and his allies have recovered the magical sapphire Bhelliom, giving them the power to wake and cure Queen Ehlana.But while they were away an unholy alliance was brokered between their enemies that threatens the safety of not just Elenia but the entire world.By returning to save the young queen, Sparhawk risks delivering the Bhelliom into the hands of the enemy.As battle looms, Sparhawk’s only hope may be to unleash the jewel’s full power. But no one can predict whether this will save the world or destroy it…
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DAVID EDDINGS
The Elenium Trilogy
The Diamond Throne
The Ruby Knight
The Sapphire Rose
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The Diamond Throne
First published in Great Britain by Grafton 1989
Previously published in paperback by Grafton 1990
and by HarperCollins Science Fiction & Fantasy 1993, 1995, 2005.
Copyright © David Eddings 1989
Cover Layout Design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2015
The Ruby Knight
First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 1990
Previously published in paperback by Grafton 1991
Copyright © David Eddings 1990
Cover Layout Design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2015
The Sapphire Rose
First published in Great Britain by Grafton 1991
Previously published in paperback by Grafton 1992,
and by HarperCollins Science Fiction & Fantasy 1993.
Copyright © David Eddings 1991
Cover Layout Design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2015
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Source ISBNs:
The Diamond Throne: 9780007578979
The Ruby Knight: 9780007578986
The Sapphire Rose: 9780007578993
Bundle Edition (Containing The Diamond Throne, The Ruby Knight, and The Sapphire Rose) © April 2015 ISBN: 9780008118341
Version: 2015-02-06
Contents
DAVID EDDINGS
The Diamond Throne
The Elenium
BOOK ONE
Contents
Ghwerig and the Bhelliom – From the Legends of the Troll-Gods
At the dawn of time, long before the ancestors of Styricum slouched, fur-clad and club-wielding, out of the mountains and forests of Zemoch onto the plains of central Eosia, there dwelt in a deep cavern lying beneath the perpetual snows of northern Thalesia a dwarfed and misshapen Troll named Ghwerig. Now, Ghwerig was an outcast by reason of his ugliness and his over-whelming greed, and he laboured alone in the depths of the earth, seeking gold and precious gems that he might add to the treasure-hoard which he jealously guarded. Finally there came a day when he broke into a deep gallery far beneath the frozen surface of the earth and beheld by the light of his flickering torch a deep blue gemstone, larger than his fist, embedded in the wall. Trembling with excitement in all his gnarled and twisted limbs, he squatted on the floor of that passage and gazed with longing at the huge jewel, knowing that its value exceeded that of the entire hoard which he had laboured for centuries to acquire. Then he began with great care to cut away the surrounding stone, chip by chip, so that he might lift the precious gem from the spot where it had rested since the world began. And as more and more it emerged from the rock, he perceived that it had a peculiar shape, and an idea came to him. Could he but remove it intact, he might by careful carving and polishing enhance that shape and thus increase the value of the gem a thousand-fold.
When at last he gently took the jewel from its rocky bed, he carried it straightaway to the cave wherein lay his workshop and his treasure-hoard. Indifferently, he shattered a diamond of incalculable worth and fashioned from its fragments tools with which he might carve and shape the gem which he had found.
For decades, by the light of smoky torches, Ghwerig patiently carved and polished, muttering all the while the spells and incantations which would infuse this priceless gem with all the power for good or ill of the Troll-Gods. When at last the carving was done, the gem was in the shape of a rose of deepest sapphire blue. And he named it Bhelliom, the flower-gem, and he believed that by its might all things might be possible for him.
