About the Book
Cover: Michael Whelan.
From the best-selling author of TAILCHASER'S SONG comes the first volume in an epic fantasy trilogy filled with warfare, magic, and wonder.
THE DRAGONBONE CHAIR is the story of Simon, a young kitchen boy and
magician's apprentice, whose dreams of great deeds and heroic wars come
all too shockingly true when his world is torn apart by a terrifying civil war – a war fueled by ancient
hatreds, immortal enemies, and the dark powers of sorcery.
In Osten Ard, a land once ruled by an elvishlike race known as the
Sithi, the human High King is dying. And with this death, a
long-dormant evil is unleashed on the land as the undead Sithi ruler,
the Storm King, seeks to regain his lost realm through a pact with one
of human royal blood. Driven by spell-inspired jealousy and fear, prince fights prince, while
around them the very land begins to die, poisoned by a sorcerous force
sworn to annihilate the humans whose ancestors had driven the Sithi
from their rightful home long ages ago.
Only a small, scattered group, the League of the Scroll, recognizes the
true danger faced by Osten Ard, only they hold the knowledge of times
past, of threats fulfilled, and of a riddle of swords, which holds out
the one small hope of salvation. And to Simon – unknowingly apprenticed
to a member of this League, and unwittingly touched by magic both good
and ill – will go the task for spearheading the search for the solution
to this riddle of long-lost swords of power, a quest that will see him
fleeing and facing enemies straight out of a legend-maker's worst
nightmare!
