"Furey,.Maggie.-.Artifacts.of.Power.4.-.Dhiammara" - читать интересную книгу автора (Furey Maggie)Blacktalon have laid an ambush.
Across the mountains, in the lands of the Xandim Horse-folk, a Seer receives a vision on the winds. Chiamh, the despised, reclusive Windeye of the Xandim, discovers powers of evil reaching out from the north toward two Bright Ones beyond the mountains. At the risk of destroying his tribe, he knows he must aid them in their fight against darkness. The Xandim are shape-shifters, existing in either human or equine form. They capture Parric and his companions and sentence them to death. Chiamh rescues them with the help of Basileus, a MoldanЧthe living mind and soul of the Wynd-veil mountain. Vannor, now settled with his rebels in the Vale, under D'ar-van's unseen guidance, hears that his daughter Zanna has left the Nightrunner hideout and returned to Nexis. He sets off to search for her with the veteran warrior Hargorn, but is captured by Miathan. Aurian's band reach the Tower of Incondor and are attacked by Blacktalon's Skyfolk and Harihn's troops. Shia, at the Mage's urging, flees with the Staff of Earth. Yazour, though wounded, escapes. Aurian is imprisoned in the tower to await the birth of her son, whom Miathan plans to kill. Anvar is taken to the Skyfolk city of Aerillia as a hostage. Yazour is found by Schian-nath, a Xandim outlaw exiled from his homeland with his sister Iscalda, condemned by the Herdlord Phalihas to exist solely X i I The Story So Fa. r Th t o r y So F 2 x i i t in her equine shape: a white mare. Using the Staff to communicate, Shia convinces Schiannath to help the wounded warrior. Raven is taken back to Aerillia. Blacktalon plans to wed her to consolidate his power, but first and her apprentice Cygnus, formerly a secret supporter of the High Priest. In Nexis, Hargorn is wounded by the troops of Pendral, a cruel, corrupt merchant, and is rescued by Jarvas, who runs a refuge for destitute Nexians. Hargom is cared for by the physician Benziorn and his assistant Emmie, who finds two straysЧ a starving white dog and a boy, Grince. She takes them back to the refuge, along with the dog's litter of puppies. To reach Aerillia, Shia must cross the lands of her own people. Helped by the old cat Hreeza and the young male Khanu, she wins her way through. The two others join her. Remana, mother of Yanis, the Nightrunner leader, goes with her son and Zanna's friend Tarnal to Nexis, to find Van-nor and his daughter. Seeking the help of Jarvas, they row up-river by night and make their way into Nexis via the sewers, emerging to find Jarvas's refuge under attack by Pendral's soldiers. Remana helps the refugees escape through the sewers, taking them back to the smuggler hideout at Wyvernesse, but Grince is left behind. Benziom remains to search for him, while Yanis and Tarnal stay in Nexis to find Zanna. Vannor is captured by Miathan and imprisoned within the Mages' Tower. He discovers that Zanna is already there, in the guise of Eliseth's maid. At the request of the wounded Yazour, Schiannath climbs the Tower of Incondor and finds Aurian. She refuses to be rescued while Anvar is a hostage, but agrees to signal the Xandim for his assistance when her child is born. Chiamh has rescued Panic and his companions, but Meiriel, now dangerously insane, has vanished into the mountains. To gain the help of the Xandim, Panic challenges Phalihas for leadership or the tribe and becomes Herdlord. The Windeye traps Phalihas in his equine form, and acting on Chiamh's Vision, Parric takes a troop of warriors to Aurian's rescue. Anvar has been imprisoned by the Skyfolk in a cave high on a cliff. Shia makes a near-impossible |
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