"Recluce - 07 - The Chaos Balance" - читать интересную книгу автора (Modesitt L E)

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аа "... notice, though ... he never strikes ... all defense .. ."
аа But how long could he only defend? How long?
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THUS CONTINUED THE conflict between order and chaos, between those who
would force order and those who would not, and between those who followed
the blade and those who followed the spirit.
аа On the Roof of the World, those first angels raised crops amid the
eternal ice, and builded walls, and made bricks, and all manner of
devisings of the most miraculous, from the black blades that never dulled
to the water that flowed amidst the ice of winter and the tower that
remained yet warm from a single fire.
аа Of the great ones in those times were, first, Ryba of the twin blades,
Nylan of the forge of order, Gerlich the hunter, Saryn the mighty, and
Ayrlyn, of the songs that forged the guards of Westwind.
аа For as the skilled and terrible smith Nylan forged the terrible black
blades of Westwind, and wrenched the very stones from the mountains for
the tower called Black, so did Ryba guide the guards of Westwind, letting
no man triumph upon the Roof of the World.
аа For as each lord of the demons said, 'I will not suffer those angel
women to survive,' and as each angel fell, Ryba created yet another from
those who fled the demons, until there were none that could stand against
Tower Black.
аа So too, as did each of the forges of Heaven fail, did the mighty smith
Nylan bend the fires of the world to his will and forge yet anew the
black blades of Westwind.
аа Yet, despite Nylan's efforts in smiting the legions of the demons into
dust, Ryba the mighty was not satisfied, and she asked for more black
blades than the snowflakes that fell upon Tower Black, and for arrows
that no armor could stop. And Nylan bent the forges to his will, and it
was so, and still was Ryba displeased. . . .
аа .. . and so it came to pass that Ryba was the last of the angels to
rule the heavens and the angel who set forth the Legend for all to heed.
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аааааааа Book of Ayrlyn
аааааааа Section I
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MOST ILLUSTRIOUS LORD, Protector of the Steps to Paradise, and-"
аа "Enough, Themphi. Enough," answered the silver-robed figure who sat
easily in the sculpted malachite and silver chair on the dais. "What is
the problem? This time?"
аа The man in white bowed. "My lord Lephi ... the snows were mighty, and
the Great East River rises."