![]() And yet His children fight each other to the death over lines they can only imagine." How true is that, especially in the light of nowadays war? And God makes no lines across His Heavens-the sky is blue from one horizon to the other with scarcely a difference to be seen, let alone a boundary. Animals walk and birds fly freely from one land to the next and no one thinks to stop them doing it. So is there something wrong in the way men rule each other? she wondered. Most folk who live on the edges speak the language of both sides, and there is little else to separate one nation's people from another's. But in truth, unless people contest the borders, the differences mean little. "We make marks on maps to separate one country from the next, then write treaties to make law of those separations, she thought. ![]() Utuk’ku plans to use the Navigator’s fabled armor to call up the spirit of Hakatri, the evil Storm King’s brother.Įven the Sithi, fairy-kin to the Norns, are helpless to stop Utuk’ku’s triumph as her armies simultaneously march on the Hayholt and force their way into the forbidden, ogre-guarded valley of Tanakirú-the Narrowdark-where a secret waits that might bring Simon’s people and their Sithi allies salvation-or doom. Meanwhile, a deadly army of Norns led by the ageless, vengeful Queen Utuk’ku, has swept into Erkynland and thrown down the fortress of Naglimund, slaughtering the inhabitants and digging up the ancient grave of Ruyan the Navigator. Miriamele’s husband, King Simon, is overwhelmed by grief and hopelessness, unaware that many of these terrible things have been caused by Pasevalles, a murderous traitor inside Simon’s own court at the Hayholt. Her grandson Morgan, heir to the throne, has been captured by one of Utuk’ku’s soldiers in the ruins of an abandoned city. ![]() ![]() Queen Miriamele has been caught up in a brutal rebellion in the south and thought to have died in a fiery attack. The High Throne of Erkynland is tottering, its royal family divided and diminished. The New York Times bestselling world of Osten Ard returns in the third Last King of Osten Ard novel, as threats to the kingdom loom. ![]()
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