"Mickey Zucker Reichert - Renshai 02 - The Western Wizard" - читать интересную книгу автора (Reichert Mickey Zucker)

Trilless had come to this unpopulated shoreline for the quiet solace it offered, yet the ancient champion
of all goodness found no peace within or without. For all its stillness, the ocean seemed coiled and
restless, locked into the dark instant of lull that preceded the most violent storms. As if in answer, the
memories and surviving slivers of identity from Trilless' eighteen predecessors seemed to writhe within
her. Always before, they had remained quiescent, a conglomerate of experiences and references she
called upon in time of need. Now, they heaved and fidgeted like tempest-wracked waves, while the
ocean itself remained uncharacteristically stagnant.



More than four centuries ago, the ceremony that had established Trilless as the Northern Sorceress, one
of the four Cardinal Wizards, had also, by necessity, claimed the life of her direct predecessor. Trilless
knew that the pool of knowledge granted to her by that ceremony made her the most powerful of her
line, just as her own successor would gain the benefit of her lore and become even more wise,
knowledgeable, and skilled. The first four Cardinal Wizards established by Odin, including the original
Northern Sorceress, had no magical powers. Haunted by dreams and images, they had written or
spoken their prophecies, leaving them for later, more adept successors to fulfill. Now, Trilless found
herself haunted by the first prediction of the first Northern Sorceress:



In an age of change



When Chaos shatters Odin's ward



And the Cardinal Wizards forsake their vows



A Renshai shall come forward.



Hero of the Great War



He will hold legend and destiny in his hand
And wield them like a sword.



Too late shall he be known unto you: