While attending to Lady Adelie, wife to the Earl of Pengraic, as a terrible plague sweeps across Europe, young noblewoman Maeb Langtofte discovers that the walls of Pengraic castle are no longer safe after stumbling upon the Earl's dark secret.
Impossible Odds (Chronicle of the King's Blades, #2) (Tales of the King's Blades, #5)
by Dave Duncan
When the Grand Duchess Rubin, posing as a man to protect her identity, seeks the assistance of the realm's best swordsmen to regain her throne from an evil sorcerer, she finds assistance from two haphazard companions.
There is a legend... Britannia, AD 535 The Romans have gone. While their libraries smoulder, roads decay and cities crumble, men with swords pick over civilisation's carcass, slaughtering and being slaughtered in turn.This is the story of just such a man. Like the others, he had a sword. He slew until slain. Unlike the others, we remember him. We remember King Arthur.This is the story of a land neither green nor pleasant. An eldritch isle of deep forest and dark fell haunted by swaithes, boggart...
Designed in conjunction with DCC #100: The Music of the Spheres is Chaos, these dice embody the spirit of water for your game! A complete set of 14 dice for DCC RPG! The dice recall the depths with a swirl of dark teal and white marble with gold numbers. Includes all the dice required for DCC RPG: d3, d4, d5, d6, d7, d8, d10, d12, d14, d16, d20, d24, and d30, plus a percentile d%.
I may be an immortal magician, but have I finally met my match? I’m both university instructor Merry Lytton and immortal magician Merlin. After an adjustment period, I’ve finally reconciled my elemental and human sides. But Xenia, the earth elemental I failed to defeat, wants more than a quiet human life. She is determined to bring her elemental allies to Earth, and the exodus creates chaos that threatens to demolish the city. I have magic powers, but she has more. I’m racing against an enemy...
Camelot's power hangs by a thread, but no one yet knows it. Its fate is tied to the children King Arthur was never supposed to have... Anwil and Ariadne Pendragon are twins, best friends, and yet nothing alike. While Anwil pores over books in the library, Ariadne is training to be a Knight of the Round Table. Yet they are both haunted by the same shadow: their late father, the legendary King Arthur. It's been nearly twenty years since Arthur died in the Battle of Camlann, and peace has since...
Demons, Druids, and buried secrets. The Camelot Archive is open for business.When Madeleine Greenbriar finds herself the custodian of a mysterious new power, the timing couldn’t be worse. The Camelot Archive has been unearthed, and with it a sickness that has stricken their revered leaders: the Twin Flames, Excalibur and Arondight. To make matters worse, a greater demon is desperate to get inside and unlock the mysterious vault hidden in its depths. Without the Natural’s greatest power to defe...
God bless you, England, on this glorious Year of Our Lord, 1145. Things are definitely not right in Nottingham. Rebecca, daughter of a Jewish money-lender, has a sense for it.A mad monk schemes to resurrect the Christ from body parts. A bone harpist murders creatures of legend for a price. A fae creature binds its wings and embraces a new God and his son.And don't even mention the Hood. The Man in Green. The Prince of Thieves. The tick-tock taker of the ten-toll tax.What hope have the series of...
Magic at my fingertips, immortality on my side, and I’m still out of time. Until a volcano awoke near the modern city I call home, I hid my secrets well. I am Merlin the magician, but my friendship with the long-dead King Arthur was an eternity ago. My immortality is the unending mystery of my life. But when threads of magic lead me to a smoking mountain, it’s clear the threatening eruption isn’t natural. At first, I didn’t care about the looming disaster—after living through the Black Plague,...
How can my magic defeat a goddess? I’m an immortal magician who only wants a peaceful life with his fiancée. My elemental nemesis was soundly beaten—so I thought—but now she’s back and plans to reign over all humans in the guise of a resurrected Aztec deity. She will do anything to sway her followers. Every day, more people are drawn to her earth-worshiping cult at the cost of their lives. Can I stop this self-proclaimed goddess before the entire city is under her dominion? I am Merlin—but I...
The kingdom of Wilderheim stands bastion between the world of humans and the Otherlands. It is ruled as much by people as it is by creatures Other and as such, it must always have a wizard at the right hand of its king. Nico has seen three generations of rulers sit the throne; he knows he will not see the fourth. Desperate to find a worthy apprentice, when Nia appears like a godsend in his path he wastes no time taking her under his wing as his last sworn duty to the young king Saeran.But Nia an...
The Old French Lancelot-Graal is an important but massive work, providing a place for King Arthur not only in the history of Britain but also in Christian history. This new translation of one section, the Quest of the Holy Grail, will be a flexible addition to courses on medieval literature or romance. The notes and guides are designed to help readers enjoy the text while appreciating its relationship to social and literary history. Appendices include translations of material from two of Chrétie...
This magical account of King Arthur’s last night on earth, rediscovered in a collection of T. H. White’s papers at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, spent twenty-six weeks on the New York Times bestseller list following its publication in 1977. While preparing for his final, fatal battle with his bastard son, Mordred, Arthur returns to the Animal Council with Merlyn, where the deliberations center on ways to abolish war. More self-revealing than any other of White’s b...