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Easy. A Masterbard, of incredible, magical talent.

Perhaps initiate ability has been bred out of the townborne, due to the clans having to stay as pure as possible in order to withstand paravian presence and mysteries. This might be what is preventing the Koriathain finding anything but lower-level talent.

Didn't Lysaer reduce the seagate to slag with his gift of Light? It was not Paravian-constructed, after all, and therefore had no defence against his arcane attack. Conventional attack had failed for the better part of five centuries, and probably would have continued to fail, barring some...

I must agree with Clansman. Janny has three books left in this series, and a seriously huge amount of information to relay. The cork has got to come out, or it will be too rushed. Stormed Fortress was just packed with information, and I don't think she could have put more into it. I expect...

I would heartily second Werthead's recommendation of Guy Gavriel Kay. The Lions of Al-Rassan is a wonderful book, and is representative of the rest of his work (except Fionavar Tapestry, which is different). Kay's prose is really, really wonderful. You get a very rich feeling from it, and it...

I am a long time Wurts fan. Started with the Empire series back in the 1980s. Personally, I believe that both she and fantasy readers in general got shafted by the way she was treated by her publisher. Her publisher goes through a merger, and despite the first books of The Wars of Light and...

That is a very interesting idea, Dekket. In CotMW, we know that the F7 discovered that Desh-Thiere was both sentient and had some sort of ability regarding time. Is this what led to the Curse? Is Desh-Thiere able to use those aspects of Traithe that it corrupted before he burned part of his...

If I could throw my two cents in, aren't the Koriathain trying to safeguard the heritage of humanity as the guardians of the knowledge of their star-faring, pre-Athera civilization? Some slack could be cut, because the Compact is pretty difficult for humanity to bear. The reason Davien is...