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PDB Name: Crown of Fire
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Creation Date: 16-8-1973
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CROWN OF FIRE
by Ed Greenwood

Sequel to the Best-Selling Novel 'Spellfire'

The action of this novel occurs in the Year of the Prince (1357 Dalreckoning),
immediately after the
novel 'Spellfire', and before the Coming of the Gods.


Prologue


Something flashed as it moved - aye, there! Brann stepped up to the grassy
crest of the hill where his
flock was pastured and looked east, shading his eyes against the bright
forenoon sun. Whatever was
moving caught the light again, flashing against the dark, tree clad lower
slopes of the mountains
opposite him. Out of habit, Brann looked quickly around at his flock, counting
without thought. He
found nothing amiss and peered back to the east again, looking for that moving
glint to show itself
again.
The mountains stood high and dark, like a row of stone giants frowning down on
easternmost Cormyr.
The "Thunder Peaks", men called them, named for the fierce storms that often
rolled and broke among
them. They were hard and grim and splendid, and sometimes Brann just sat and
watched them for
hours.
Much as he was watching them now. They towered over him like a dark,
many-spired fortress wall,
forever hiding Sembia from the high meadows where he stood. Rich, splendid
Sembia, a land where fat