Orivon Firefist was captured as a six-year-old child by the Nilfghar—the dark elves—who attacked his village by night on one of their surface raids.

 

Fifteen years later, he is a moon-pale, scarred, muscular giant of a man, who has spent his days at forgework for a dark elf family. He is also forced to use his great strength to shift furniture in the grand rooms of their castle. He has been trained (and flogged and ordered about) by the beautiful Tsarnarra, a lash-wielding matron who is icily cruel, but proud of the slaves that she has trained.

 

Through all of this, Orivon’s spirit has never been broken. He longs to return to the surface world, even if that means destroying the entire dark elf empire along the way!

Praise

Praise for Ed Greenwood:

 

"A page-turning, swash-buckling thriller of a tale of dark elven magic."

--J. Robert King, editor of Realms of the Underdark on Dark Warrior Rising

"No one is more adept a world builder or as entertaining a storyteller as Ed Greenwood."--Douglas Niles, co-author of Forgotten Realms: Menzoberranzan – The Famed City of the Drow Revealed at Last!

“Ed Greenwood is a master of fantasy adventure world-building. His magic and wizardry are wondrous to all.”

--Margaret Weis, author of Master of Dragons

 

 

About the Author(s)

Ed Greenwood

Ed Greenwood is the creator of the bestselling world of the Forgotten Realms as well the Band of Four series. He lives in Ontario, Canada.

photo: Jenny Greenwood

Excerpt

Chapter 1
This was it. The moment of punishment he’d been marched to the holy hut to receive. 
 Orivon stood trembling in the darkness, his bare feet on the cold dirt aching to turn and flee. He might be as tall and as strong as many of the men in the village, but he was still a boy. And right now, here under the hand of the god, he felt very young and very alone.
All he’d done was smash a stick across Aldo’s sneering face for calling his mother “old widow.

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