"Michael Moorcock - The Runestaff 3 - The Sword of The Dawn" - читать интересную книгу автора (Moorcock Michael)

5 PahlBewchard 127

6 Narleen 132

7 The Blaze 140

8 The Walls of Starvel 146

9 The Temple of Batach Gerandiun 152

10 A Friend from the Shadows 160

11 The Parting 170

BOOK ONE

WHEN THAT ASPECT of the Eternal Champion
called Dorian Hawkmoon, last Duke of Koln, ripped
the Red Amulet from the throat of the Mad God
and made that powerful thing his own, he returned
with Huillam D'Averc and Oladahn of the Mountains
to the Kamarg where Count Brass, his daughter Yis-
selda, his friend Bowgentle the philosopher and all
their people underwent siege from the hordes of the
Dark Empire led by Hawkmoon's old enemy Baron
Meliadus of Kroiden.

So powerful had the Dark Empire grown that it
threatened to destroy even the well-protected province
of the Kamarg. If that happened, it would mean that
Meliadus would take Yisselda for his own and slay
slowly all the rest, turning the Kamarg to a waste of
ash. Only by the mighty force released by the ancient
machine of the wraith-folk which could warp whole
areas of time and space were they saved by shifting
into another dimension of the Earth.

And so they found sanctuary. Sanctuary in some
other Kamarg, where the evil and horror of Granbretan
did not exist; but they knew that if ever the crystal ma-
chine were destroyed, they would be plunged back into
the chaos of their own time and space.

For a while they lived in joyful relief at their es-
cape, but gradually Hawkmoon began to finger his
sword and wonder at the fate of his own world . . .
ЧThe High History of the Runestaff

Chapter One