Enduring Flame #01 - The Phoenix Unchained

✍ Scribed by Lackey, Mercedes; Mallory, James

• Book ID: 107203167
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 196 KB
• Series: Enduring Flame 1
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

From Publishers Weekly

This entertaining series opener takes place more than 1,000 years after events depicted in the Obsidian Trilogy. The city of Armethalieh is no longer ruled by mages, and High Magick itself is forgotten. Elves and dragons are known to exist, but live in distant lands and are never seen. Wielders of Wild Magic are extremely rare. Characters familiar from earlier books have become legends from a dim past. Then Tiercel Rolfort, the scholarly son of lower nobility, rediscovers High Magick. Beset with visions and physically weakening, Tiercel decides his best hope is to take a journey to find a Wild Mage. Meanwhile, Wild Mage Bisochim has become convinced of his calling to set the balance aright by bringing darkness back into the world. Having found and bonded with the dragon Saravasse, he plans to draw on her power to further his dark goals. This beguiling beginning promises a highly readable epic combining vivid characterization with an interesting exploration of how past heroics are twisted over centuries into something both more and less than they were.
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Review

“High fantasy fans should appreciate the intelligent storytelling with an unmistakable flavor of Andre Norton at her best.”
—Publisher's Weekly  on When Darkness Falls “Plenty of good-versus-evil action…. A rich reading experience. The overriding message in this trilogy is that all power comes with a cost, and every action has a consequence, an important lesson for readers of all ages.”
—VOYA on When Darkness Falls