The Serpent Bride
The Serpent Bride is the first book in the Darkglass Mountain trilogy, revisiting the tempestuous magical world of Tencendor with all it’s strange and wonderful inhabitants.Tencendor is no more; the cherished home of the Acharites, Avar and Icarii crumbled beneath the Widowmaker Sea five years ago.But the sacrifice of a continent may not save a world. The Timekeeper Demons were defeated, but a more ancient evil waits patiently for its own vengeance.Across the empty ocean, deep in the Outlands, The Coil – worshippers of the Snake God – divine a terrible future from the eviscerated entrails of a living human sacrifice. They must offer their precious arch priestess to the King of Escator, Maximilian Persimius, or face oblivion.In Escator, Maximilian must agree to a union with reviled Coil to or see his beloved kingdom fall into financial ruin, though the Outlands would turn against his small realm should they uncover his bride's origins.But the King of Escator has many reasons to fear the future, for his serpent bride is not the only secret he hides…
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SARA DOUGLASS
The Serpent Bride
Darkglass Mountain
Book 1
For Snow
Contents
2. Serpentâs Nest, The Outlands
3. Serpentâs Nest, The Outlands
4. Serpentâs Nest, The Outlands
5. The Royal Palace, Ruen, Escator
6. The Royal Palace, Ruen, Escator
7. The Royal Palace, Ruen, Escator
8. Serpentâs Nest, and the Royal Palace at Ruen
1. Lake Juit, Tyranny of Isembaard
2. Baron Lixelâs Residence, Margalit
3. Palace of Aqhat, Tyranny of Isembaard
4. Baron Lixelâs Residence, Margalit
5. Palace of Aqhat, Tyranny of Isembaard
6. Palace of Aqhat, Tyranny of Isembaard
7. The Royal Palace, Ruen, Escator
8. Palace of Aqhat, Tyranny of Isembaard
10. Hairekeep, Tyranny of Isembaard
11. Palace of Aqhat, Tyranny of Isembaard
12. West of Pelemere, Central Kingdoms
13. Pelemere, Central Kingdoms
14. Pelemere, Central Kingdoms
15. Pelemere, Central Kingdoms
4. Darkglass Mountain, Tyranny of Isembaard
9. Palace of Aqhat, Tyranny of Isembaard
10. Pelemere, Central Kingdoms
11. Palace of Aqhat, Tyranny of Isembaard
12. Pelemere, Central Kingdoms
13. Palace of Aqhat, Tyranny of Isembaard
5. The Road from Pelemere to Kyros, Central Kingdoms
8. The Road from Kyros to Escator, Central Kingdoms
9. The Road from Kyros to Escator, Central Kingdoms
10. The Road from Kyros to Escator, Central Kingdoms
11. The Road from Kyros to Deepend, Central Kingdoms
14. The Road from Kyros to Escator, Central Kingdoms
1. Palace of the First, Yoyette, Coroleas
2. Palace of the First, Yoyette, Coroleas
3. Farreach Mountains, and the Northern Reaches of the Ashdod Dependency
4. Palace of the First, Yoyette, Coroleas
6. Palace of the First, Yoyette, Coroleas
7. Southern Reaches of the Farreach Mountains
8. Southern Reaches of the Farreach Mountains
9. The Town of Torinox, Northern Borders of the Farreach Dependency
10. Palace of the First, Yoyette, Coroleas
11. The Town of Torinox, Northern Borders of the Farreach Dependency
12. Palace of the First, Yoyette, Coroleas
13. The Royal Palace, Ruen, Escator
14. The Royal Palace, Ruen, Escator
15. Palace of the First, Yoyette, Coroleas
1. Northern Plains of Isembaard
2. Palace of the First, Yoyette, Coroleas
3. Northern Plains of Isembaard
4. Courtyard of the People, Yoyette, Coroleas
5. Widowmaker Sea, to The West of Escator
6. River Lhyl, Tyranny of Isembaard
7. Widowmaker Sea, to The West of Escator
8. The Marshlands Outside Narbon, Escator
10. Venetiaâs Hut in the Marshlands, Escator
11. The Road Between Narbon And Deepend
4. Deepend, and the Road from Deepend to the Farreach Mountains
5. At the Foot of the Farreach Mountains
11. The Farreach Mountains, Southern Kyros
12. The Farreach Mountains, Southern Kyros
13. The Farreach Mountains, Southern Kyros
14. The Farreach Mountains, Southern Kyros
15. Palace of Aqhat, Isembaard
16. Palace of Aqhat, Isembaard
17. Darkglass Mountain, Isembaard
18. Palace of Aqhat, Isembaard
19. Palace of Aqhat, Isembaard
20. Palace of Aqhat, Isembaard
2. Palace of Aqhat, Tyranny of Isembaard
3. The Eastern Plains, Gershadi
4. Dependency of En-Dor, Tyranny of Isembaard
2. Salamaan Pass, Northern Kingdoms
3. Salamaan Pass, Northern Kingdoms
4. Saiamaan Pass, Northern Kingdoms
5. Pelemere, Northern Kingdoms
8. Entrance to the Sky Peak Passes, The Outlands
9. Entrance to the Sky Peak Pass, The Outlands
In the beginning and for an infinity of time there was nothing but the darkness of Chaos, who called himself Kanubai. After a time Kanubai grew weary of his lonely existence and so he invited Light and Water to be his companions. Kanubai and Light and Water co-existed harmoniously, but one day Light and Water merged, just for an instant of time, but in that instant they conceived a child â Life.
Kanubai was jealous of Life, for it was the child of the union of Light and Water and he had been excluded from that union. He set out to murder Life, to consume it with darkness, but Light and Water came to the defence of their child. Aided by a great mage, Light and Water defeated Kanubai in a terrible battle, and interred his remains in a deep abyss. They stoppered this abyss with a sparkling, life-giving river, which combined the best both of Light and of Water, and they hoped that Kanubai was trapped for all time.
