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seemed warmer, much warmer, had Leyladin been anywhere nearer.
Yet even thinking of Leyladin didn't always help. She was a healer, and he was a White mage,
and Black and White didn't always work out. Some Whites couldn't even touch Blacks without
physical pain for both. He'd held her hands, but that was all. Would that be all?
He paced back across the porch again, almost angrily.


II

...In time, as the winds shifted, and as the rains fell less upon Candar, and as the fair
grasslands of Kyphros turned into high desert, and as the Stone Hills came to resemble the
furnaces wherein metal is forged, others in the rest of the world came also to understand the
dangers posed by the Black Isle.
Even the Emperor of far Hamor dispatched his fleets unto the Gulf of Candar, seeking the
talismans of dark order borne by Creslin the Black so that they might be destroyed, lest the world
suffer once more the same cataclysms as befell ancient Cyador.
Though warned by the those of the Guild of the great storms raised by the evil Creslin, the
Emperor of Hamor thought that he alone would seize the talismans of order and thus raise Hamor to
become first among all lands.
In his greed and arrogance, the emperor sent more than a score of vessels, all filled with
armsmen and weapons of every type and size, and those ships sailed into the port known as Land's
End and attacked the small keep therein, for Creslin was seeking the high and great winds far
away.
Yet, even in Creslin's absence, Megaera the black-hearted raised mighty fires and turned many
of the emperor's ships into funeral pyres for sailors and armsmen alike.
Creslin returned, with both his killing blade and the great winds, and all but a single ship
perished, and all but a score of all those thousands of men who had sought the talismans of order
perished as well.
The single ship that remained Creslin rebuilt and refitted, as the beginning to the Black


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fleets....
Colors of White
(Manual of the Guild at Fairhaven)
Preface


III

Cerryl nodded to the tower guards on duty, although he didn't know either by name, as he passed on
his way to report to the overmage Kinowin.
"Good day, ser," the older guard returned.
Cerryl smiled politely, glad that this day was drawing to a close, although it hadn't been that
eventful, unlike the time with the oil smugglers several eight-days before. Most days were quiet-
and long.
Kinowin's quarters were on the lowest level of the tower-and the door was around the corner to
the left from the guard station-Derka's door was the other way, not that Cerryl had been there,