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Sorcery Rising
Jude Fisher



Acknowledgments

My thanks to Joy, Dick, Jim, Emma, Mike and Jo for their encouragement on this long
road; to Henry Treece, J. R. R. Tolkien and the saga-makers, who started me dreaming;
to Viggo and Iceland for ravens, words, and warriors; to sea cliffs, gritstone outcrops,
limestone towers and granite domes and the wild places of the world; to Armoricon,
Saxon, Treason, Croton Oil, Front Line, and The Holdless Horror for gifting me with a
sense of my own mortality and survival; and to Russ, Danny, and Betsy, for the care they
take.




CONTENTS

Prologue

Part One
1234

Part Two
5 6789

Part Three
10 11 12 13 14 15 16

Part Four
17 18 19 20 21 22 23

Interim




MAP
 Prologue
THE day the Master showed him the world was the day Virelai became a man, which
was a dangerous thing indeed, and not at all what the mage had intended.
***
WHEN the great ice door swung open before him, Virelai experienced a moment of
pure terror. He felt the chill air inside reach out for him, as if the pitch-dark heart of the
tower room contained a sucking vacuum that might swallow him up forever. Rahe's grim
intonation as he ushered him insideтАФ"Welcome, Virelai, to my world"тАФhad hardly been
encouraging, either, for the mage had been acting very strangely of late.
Virelai had caught him on numerous occasions setting small firesтАФin the grounds, in