The Women And The Warlords (Chronicles of an Age of Darkness: Volume 3)

Enhances this fantasy epic collection with swift action, a well-developed world in which an oracle becomes involved in superpower warlord battles for control, and characterization which is realistic."" - The Bookwatch. ""Considers the plight of an intelligent single woman who, as an oracle, enjoys neither a fixed role nor a class niche...Cook's picaresque plot yields abundant adventure, baroque inventions along with a darkly comic edge and, along the way, a measure of rueful insight."" - Publishers Weekly. After an oracle's prediction, Yenn Olas becomes involved in the life-long feud of the warlords of the Collosnon Empire. She was a witness to war, madness and wizardry, and would play a greater part in the events of her time that a mere oracle has any right to expect