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DHIAMMARA
A Bantam Spectra Book / November 1997
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Copyright й 1997 by Maggie Furey.
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This one is for those special friends who have given their unstinting help and support to Eric and
myself over the last twelve hair-raising months:
Sheila Mawer and Geoff Green, for putting us up and putting up with us during the homeless months
of the House move.
Diane Duane and Peter Morwood, for taking us by the hand and leading us safely through the
minefield of the move to Ireland.
Philomena and Michael O'ConnorЧwhose warm and wonderful company is a joy and an inspiration.
And Donal Cunningham, Computer-Mage without peer, who, among many other kindnesses, was
instrumental in getting this manuscript delivered on time. (He makes a mean chocolate truffle,
too!)
Thanks, guysЧfor everything.
THE STORY SO FAR . . .
Long ago, four magical weapons had been fashioned by Mages whose history was lost, together with
the Artifacts themselves, in the CataclysmЧhorrific wars of magic which wrought changes on land
and water. Lost also was the history of the non-human Mages: the Winged Ones, the Dragonfolk, and
the great LeviathanЧor so said ancient legends.
Aurian, growing up in her mother's lonely Valley, knows nothing of these tales. Yet when she meets
Forral, a wandering swordsman, the encounter changes not only their lives, but the future course
of history.
Aurian's father, Geraint, perished through misuse of his Fire-magic, and her grieving mother, the
Earth-Mage Eilin, is obsessed with restoring the ValleyЧthe barren crater left by the explosion.
Forral stays to care for the neglected child and teaches her swordplay. A close bond develops
between them until Aurian is sent to the city of Nexis and the Academy, home of the few remaining
Magefolk, where she can be fully trained as a Mage.
Homesick and missing Forral, Aurian turns to the Arch-mage Miathan, unaware of his sinister plans
for her. She incurs the enmity of the Weather-Mage Eliseth and her cohorts
V I t t
The Story So Far
Bragar and Davorshan, and is befriended by Finbarr the Archivist and D'arvan, Davorshan's twin,
who is unable to access his powers. As she grows to adulthood, her studies are diverted by the