The Lord of Castle Black (Khaavren Romances, #3: The Viscount of Adrilankha, #2)

With his bestselling novel The Phoenix Guards , Steven Brust took readers to a time a thousand years before the events of his popular Vlad Taltos novels. Its sequel, Five Hundred Years After , was hailed by Science Fiction Chronicle as the best fantasy novel of the year. Now, in the Viscount of Adrilankha series, Brust has returned to the Khaavren epic, first with The Paths of the Dead , and now with its direct continuation, The Lord of Castle Black ...a novel that gives Vlad Taltos and Khaavren fans alike a new look at one of Brust's most popular characters, the Dragonlord Morrolan. Along the way, we'll also encounter swordplay, intrigues, quests, battles, romance, snappy dialogue, and the missing heir to the Imperial Throne. It's an old-fashioned adventure, moving at a twenty-first-century pace. SUMMARY: With his bestselling novel The Phoenix Guards, Steven Brust took readers to a time a thousand years before the events of his popular Vlad Taltos novels. Its sequel, Five Hundred Years After, was hailed by Science Fiction Chronicle as the best fantasy novel of the year.Now Brust has returned to the Khaavren epic, first with last year's The Paths of the Dead, and now with its direct continuation, The Lord of Castle Black...a novel that gives Vlad Taltos and Khaavren fans alike a new look at one of Brust's most popular characters, the Dragonlord Morrolan.Along the way, we'll also encounter swordplay, intrigues, quests, battles, romance, snappy dialogue, and the missing heir to the Imperial Throne. It's an old-fashioned adventure, moving at a twenty-first-century pace. Zerika, a young Phoenix, emerges from the Paths of the Dead carrying the Orb, which is the source of all the Dragaeran Empire's magic, and Kana, a Dragonlord, vows to gain control of the orb, and the rest of the universe Two hundred and forty-six years after Adron's Disaster, Zerika succeeded in retrieving the Orb.