During the past three decades, millions of readers have thrilled as
master storyteller Andre Norton and her collaborators have woven the
immense, vibrant, and living tapestry of Witch World - that realm of
untamed magic and limitless adventure, where witches make mountains
dance, and sorcerous gates draw forces of good and evil from other
universes. But never before has Witch World been evoked in such depth,
such scope, such brilliance as in this, Andre Norton's final novel of
her beloved saga. Simon Tregarth returns, leading a planet's heroes in
the final war against the Dark, as the classic fantasy series rises to
its monumental, breathtaking grand climax... The Warding of Witch World.
The witches summon the mighty to Es: Lord Tregarth and his wife,
Jaelithe; War Marshal Koris and Lady Loyse of Gorm; the famed adept
Hilarion and sorceress Kaththea Tregarth; Dahaun of Green Valley; and
many others of power. Allies and former enemies face a crisis greater
than the Turning, a threat worse than the Kolder, an apocalypse beyond
the Great Disaster. The Magestone, the Key to the pandimensional gates,
has been lost to Otherspace...
Now all the gates are open. And an
infinite flood of evils is about to wash across the world. The known
gates can be warded and watched. But heroes of the Light, chosen by
their talents, must dare unknown dangers beyond all charted lands,
seeking to close gates in a desperate race against the Dark. Traveling
south of Estcarp and Escore, Keris Tregarth, Destree the Voice of
Gunnora, the part-Navajo Lady Eleeri, and their companions join an
alien giant to traverse deadly jungles, searching for the lost city of
the First Adept...
With Garth Howell fallen to the sway of the Dark,
Ibycus the Protector, Firdun of Gryphon Eyrie, the werepard Kethan, and
their small band must go west of Arvon and the Waste to battle the
gate-born power of the Black Mage.
