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Table of Contents
Introduction
Book I: The Legacy of Galvahir
Chapter I: The Troubled Son of Biron
Chapter II: Mityai's Testimony
Chapter III: Beautiful Peiraso
Chapter IV: The Goblins of Mount Coronis
Chapter V: The Usurper of Peiraso
Chapter VI: The Folly of Cheft Faros
Chapter VII: The Conjurers' Duel
Chapter VIII: The Exile of the Galvahirne
Book II: The Fell Wolf
Chapter I: Amlaman, Ramlos and the Kings
Chapter II: The Altar of Agonistes
Chapter III: The Children of Vulcan
Chapter IV: The Forest of Heyan
Chapter V: The Doctrine of Lord Havoc
Chapter VI: Leonara
Chapter VII: History Revealed
Chapter VIII: Power and Desire
Chapter IX: Legion's Head
Book III: The Vestron Monster
Chapter I: The Return of the Merkata Clan
Chapter II: Natham
Chapter III: The Wrath of the Monster
Chapter IV: Envy to Madness
Chapter V: The Other Outcasts
Chapter VI: In Marin Quendom
Chapter VII: Dwarves in the Marches
Chapter VIII: Into the West
Book IV: The Seige of Dadron
Chapter I: Paley
Chapter II: Evna
Chapter III: The Remnant of Galva
Chapter IV: The Monster Rages In Falsis
Chapter V: Return to Noras
Chapter VI: The Hidden People
Chapter VII: The Prophet
Chapter VIII: Light and Shadow
Chapter IX: Dadron Besieged
Chapter X: The Breaking of the Siege
Chapter XI: Facing the Monster
Chapter XII: The Siege Ends
Chapter XIII: Natham
Book V: The Siren's Song
Chapter I: The Elves Awaken
Chapter II: Victory
Chapter III: The State of Weldera
Chapter IV: Coronan Revisited
Chapter V: The Stage is Set
Chapter VI: The River Meretris
Chapter VII: The Hidden War on Sten Agoni
Chapter VIII: Fell Wolf
Chapter IX: The Punishment of the Gods
Chapter X: What Came to Pass
About The Author
Introduction
In my account of what has lately been called the Welderan War, I have found it necessary to consider the conflict, not merely as it occurred, but by tracing the more important persons back to their roots. Only in this way have I been able to make the chaotic events of recent times understandable. My reader should not be surprised, then, to find that the first three books of this treatise seem, at first glance, alien one to another, and wholly separated. But when at last these three threads are bound together, as they are in the fourth and fifth books, then at last the whole tapestry will appear comprehensible where it might otherwise have seemed to be without sense or order.