Then, on one unforgetable day, a dark moon rose above the Great Northern Desert, and a black tidal wave swept across the land. But the foremost of the Dukes, Sirano of Romark, possessed the Eldarin Pearl and was determined to unravel its secrets. The War of the Pearl had raged for seven years and the armies of the four Duchies were exhausted and weary of bloodshed. Not a trace remained for a thousand years. The Great Northern Desert was their only legacy. Gone were their cities, their armies, their terror. Yet in one awesome night the invincible Daroth had vanished from the face of the earth. The mystical Oltor, healers and poets, had fallen before the dread power of the cruel and sadistic Daroth. The peaceful Eldarin were the last of three ancient races. In this tale of love, betrayal and treachery, in a world torn by war, White Wolf examines the nature of heroism and friendship and the narrow lines dividing good and evil.įrom the Trade Paperback edition. With assassins on his trail and an army of murderous foes ahead, the Damned sets off on a quest to bring the dead to life. Now he must travel across a perilous, demon-haunted realm seeking a mysterious temple and the ageless goddess who rules it. In a few terrifying seconds their world is changed for ever, and word spreads across the lands of the East - Skilgannon is back.

Three years later, a murderous mob gathers outside a monastery, faced by a single, unarmed priest. No-one knew where he had gone, following the terrible triumph at Perapolis, and the assasins sent by the Witch Queen could find no trace of his passing.

Skilgannon the Damned had vanished from the pages of history. His final novel was Fall of Kings, which was finished after his death by his wife, Stella.White Wolf marks a return to the bestselling Drenai series and David Gemmell’s most popular hero of all, Druss the Legend. He went to have a successful career, with only one novel not making bestseller status – White Knight, Black Swan, a crime thriller he wrote under the pen name of Ross Harding. Following his third novel, Waylander, Gemmell became a full-time novelist.ĭavid Gemmell became a published novelist with the novel Legend, which he had started in 1976. His cancer was a misdiagnosis, but the novel ended up being published as Legend. Then, after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, he went back to writing, as his goal was to have at least one novel published before he died. Gemmell began trying to write in the ’70s, but the end result was not quite what he desired. He is the author of the Drenai Saga and Sipstrassi series. David Gemmell (1948-2006) was an English author of heroic and historical fantasy novels.

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