Product Description: The long-awaited beginning of the fourth story arc - Sword of the Canon - in the epic fantasy series, the Wars of Light and Shadow.Betrayed and double-crossed, Arithon s’Ffalenn is held captive by the Order of the Koriathain. The desperate Fellowship Sorcerers have gambled the weal of Athera and forced through the perilous bargain that spared him, as the last Prince of Rathain, and their sole hope of unity...read more

The penultimate instalment of the 'Alliance of Light'.

Janny Wurts's epic tale of two half-brothers cursed to life-long enmity continues in this second volume, now re-released with a striking new cover.

Product Description: Arithon, Master of Shadow, has mastered the maze and achieved self-redemption. Now he's the guest of the formidable Sorcerer, Davien the Betrayer, an enigmatic recluse, and a peril in his own right. No faction knows how that influence will try Arithon's recovered mage power, or the new depths that have wakened a latent, rogue talent for prescience...read more

Barely escaping with his life from the evil machinations of his half-brother Lysaer, Prince of Light, who is determined to kill him, Arithon flees into the winter wilds where he must learn to survive the violent storms, but Arithon soon discovers he is not alone and is forced to choose between dying at his enemies' hands or uniting with a dangerous enchanter who had once destroyed his royal ancestors.

Lysaer, the 'Lord of Light' squares off against his bastard half-brother Arithon, the 'Master of Shadow,' in a fantasy battle for the future of the world, and the balance of magical powers in the universe. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Half brothers Lysaer, the Prince of the Light, and Arithon, the Master of Shadow, engage in violent conflict in the wake of the Vastmark Warhost's destruction and the strategies of the Koriani Enchantresses.