Not since the battle at this same river five days ago. He couldn’t actually see any figures moving in the grass across the river, but he could see the fires and it wasn’t hard to judge how many more of them lay north of the Deisa than there were here behind him, where his people waited for the dawn.Īlmost certainly their last. He wasn’t really a soldier, though, and he had never been good at hating. It was curiously hard to impute any absolute sense of evil to those harmonizing voices, or to hate them quite as blindly as being a soldier seemed to require. There was singing on the other side of the river too, he noted, listening to the enemy soldiers north of them.
There was a glory to the night, Saevar thought, breathing deeply of the mild summer air, smelling water and water flowers and grass, watching the reflection of blue moonlight and silver on the river, hearing the Deisa’s murmurous flow and the distant singing from around the fires. And all the lines of light led to his eyes, to where he was sitting on the riverbank, hands about his knees, thinking about dying and the life he’d lived. Quietly flowing, the Deisa caught the moonlight and the orange of the nearer fires and cast them back in wavery, sinuous ripples.
The campfires burned on either side of the river, stretching away into the night. (Sept.Both moons were high, dimming the light of all but the brightest stars. Tolkien protege Kay's brilliant and complex portrayal of good and evil, high and low, will draw readers to this consuming epic. Gradually the scene is set for both conquerors to destroy each other and free a land. Meanwhile, at Brandin's court, Dianora, his favorite concubine and-unknown to anyone, another survivor of Tigana-struggles between her growing love for the often gentle tyrant and her desire for vengeance. At the center of these activities are Devin, a gifted young singer Catriana, a young woman pursued by suspicions of her family's guilt and Duke Sandre d'Astibar, a wily resistance leader thought dead. Years later, a small band of survivors, led by Alessan, last prince of Tigana's royal house, wages psychological warfare, planting seeds for the overthrow of the two tyrants. Brandin's younger son is slain in a battle with the principality of Tigana, which the grief-stricken sorcerer then destroys. Eight of the nine provinces of the Peninsula of the Palm, on a world with two moons, have fallen to the warrior sorcerers Brandin of Ygrath and Alberico of Barbadior. Kay ( The Fionavar Tapestry ) brings to life a layered, pragmatic world of magic and difficult choices, where brutality and beauty coexist.
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