The Gate of FireTor Publishing Group, 1. apr. 2011 - 480 sider The Gate of Fire continues Tom Harlan's remarkable fantasy epic, following the increasingly dangerous conflicts both military and sorcerous. The sorcerer Dahak plots from his hidden citadel to regain the Peacock Throne. Prince Maxian, having raised both Julius Ceasar and Alexander the Great from the dead, now considers how to use them to free Rome from the curse of the Oath. Thyatis has fled with the widowed Queen of Persia to a hidden island; Dwyrin's thaumaturgic unit is shattered as Zoe discovers the destruction of Palmyra and, as its new queen, vows revenge against Rome. And in Mecca, Ahmet's friend and Palmyra's lieutenant Mohammed receives a vision, and a command, and the power to strive against the forces of darkness. |
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... shoulder against the doorpost, flicking a dark green woolen cloak around his knees. Droplets of chill water spattered against heavy black boots. The snow that had fallen during the night was melting in the trapped heat of the city ...
Thomas Harlan. Nicholas snarled a curse and swung up on a man's shoulder, planting his boot against the courses of bricks on the Wall. The soldier, startled, shouted at him. “Bastard! Get off me!” The extra two feet of height was enough ...
... shoulder and clad in heavy capes of ermine and fox. Scale mail glinted under the fur and rose up to his neck, circled by a thick tore of gold, and down to his biceps. His eyes were slanted over high cheekbones, and his nose was broad ...
... shoulder with a long spear, catching Nicholas squarely in the left side of his chest. The spear point, a rusty iron wedge with a poorly forged brace running down the middle, ground at the center of one of the links of chain, sending a ...
... spun back the other way, the long sword flicking up to intersect with the haft of the spear, shearing it in half, and then into the spearman's shoulder, gouging through light mail and a shirt of leather. The man's mouth opened in a.
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SOMEWHERE IN THE MARE AEGEUM | |
MAKKAH ARABIA FELIX | |
THE ISLAND OF THIRA SOMEWHERE IN THE KYKLADES | |
ANTIOCH ROMAN SYRIA MAGNA | |
THE CRYPTS OF ALAMUT | |
THE ZAMZAM SOUTHERN ARABIA FELIX | |
THE RUINS OF PALMYRA SYRIA COELE | |
THE HOUSE DORELIO THE QUIRINAL HILL ROMA | |
THE RUINS OF THE KABA NEAR MEKKAH | |
THIRA | |
THE HILL ABOVE PALMYRA | |
THE CAMPUS MARTIUS ROME | |