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KNIGHTS OF DARK RENOWN

David A. Gemmell

LEGEND
CENTURY
LONDON SYDNEY AUCKLAND JOHANNESBURG
Copyright ┬й David Gemmell 1989
All rights reserved
First published in Great Britain in 1989 (simultaneously in hardcover and trade
paperback)
by Century Hutchinson Ltd
Brookmount House, 62-65 Chandos Place
London WC2N 4NW
Century Hutchinson South Africa (Pty) Ltd PO Box 337, Bergvlei, 2012 South Africa
Century Hutchinson Australia Pty Ltd
89-91 Albion Street, Surry Hills, New South Wales 2010
Australia
Century Hutchinson New Zealand Ltd
PO Box 40-086, Glenfield, Auckland 10
New Zealand
Reprinted 1989
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Gemmell, David A. Knights of dark renown
I. Title 823тАЩ.914(F)
ISBN 0-7126-2542-9 ISBN 0-7126-2547-X pbk
A Legend book published by Century Phototypeset by Input Typesetting Ltd, London
Printed and bound in Great Britain by Courier International Ltd, Tiptree, Essex
Dedication

True friends are rare, but without them life would lack all quality.
Knights of Dark Renown is dedicated with love to Val and Mike Adams, good
neighbours, good friends. And also to Ivan Kellham, Sue Blackman, and the staff at
Village Video, Hastings, who put up with a quirky author serving behind the counter
whenever he feels the need to run away from his word processor.

Acknowledgements

As always grateful thanks to Liza Reeves for the guidance, Jean Maund for the copy
editing, and Stella Graham, Tom Taylor, Edith Graham for the test reading. Special
thanks to Roger Garland for the inspired cover art.
And to Val, the safe haven in the sometimes treacherous sea of life.
Prologue

He was nine years old, torn between grief and joy, and he was flying beneath the stars
and above a land bathed in moonlight. It was a dream. Even at nine years old he knew
that people did not really fly. But still, at this moment, dream or no, he was alone and
free.
No one to chastise him for stealing a honey-cake, no one to beat him for failing to see a
finger-mark on the silver as he polished and polished hour upon hour.