In the seven years that followed the battle for the control of the legendary city of Morvannec the Mastersmith Elof, now a lord among men, has lived happily with Kara, whom he freed from the bonds of the Lady of the Ice. But Kara herself is no mortal, and the Mastersmith fears that she may one day leave him – a fear which drives him to misuse his own uncanny powers to bind her himself. He succeeds only in driving her away.
Haunted, guilt-ridden, Elof can do nothing but follow his lost love’s flight eastward, across the Seas of the Sunrise, towards the long-lost realm of Kerys from which the peoples of his land once came. In the myth-filled lands of the East he finds worse terrors than he has ever had to face, as the Powers of the Ice launch their final assault against mankind, and ultimately life itself. Injured, imprisoned, beset by the malice of men and Powers alike, Elof must face his past, his future and his final, mysterious destiny.
The series
The chronicles of The Winter of the World echo down the ages in half-remembered myth and song - tales of mysterious powers of the Mastersmiths, of the forging of great weapons, of the subterranean kingdoms of the duergar, of Gods who walked abroad, and of the Powers that struggled endlessly for dominion.
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