The Curse of the Mistwraith (Wars of Light & Shadow, Book 1)

the Stunning First Volume In Janny Wurts’s Epic Tale Of Two Half-brothers Cursed To Life-long Enmity, Now Re-released With A Striking New Cover. the World Of Athera Lives In Eternal Fog, Its Skies Obscured By The Malevolent Mistwraith. Only The Combined Powers Of Two Half-brothers Can Challenge The Mistwraith’s Stranglehold: Arithon, Master Of Shadow And Lysaer, Lord Of Light. arithon And Lysaer Will Find That They Are Inescapably Bound Inside A Pattern Of Events Dictated By Their Own Deepest Convictions. Yet There Is More At Stake Than One Battle With The Mistwraith – As The Sorcerers Of The Fellowship Of Seven Know Well. For Between Them The Half-brothers Hold The Balance Of The World, Its Harmony And Its Future, In Their Hands. it Began With A Mistwraith That Smothered All The World In Fog And Dampness, Followed By A War That Upended Order And Overthrew The Rule Of The High Kings. Now, Two Rival Brothers Must Unite To Clear The Skies Of The Deadly Mistwraith If Their World Is To Survive. Advertising In Locus. The world of Athera lives in eternal fog, its skies obscured by the malevolent Mistwraith. Only the combined powers of two half-brothers can challenge the Mistwraiths stranglehold: Arithon, Master of Shadow and Lysaer, Lord of Light. Arithon and Lysaer will find that they are inescapably bound inside a pattern of events dictated by their own deepest convictions. Yet there is more at stake than one battle with the Mistwraith as the sorcerers of the Fellowship of Seven know well. For between them the half-brothers hold the balance of the world, its harmony and its future, in their hands. Five centuries after an oppressive force took over their world, two opposing magical princes, Lysaer, Lord of Light, and Arithon, Master of Shadows, hold the power to overthrow the Mistwraith if they can overcome their differences The longboat cleaved waters stained blood red by sunset, far beyond sight of any shore.