Montegren lacks any mages-white or black-making this seem like the perfect opportunity to start again. The rulers of nearby Montgren have offered them sanctuary and the opportunity to become the Councilors of the run-down and disintegrating town of Haven. A USA Today Bestseller! Once again, prejudices against the use of chaos magic force Beltur and his companions to flee their refuge in Axalt. Modesitt, Jr., continues his bestselling Saga of Recluce with The Mage-Fire War, the third book in a story arc which began with The Mongrel Mage and Outcasts of Order. A MAGE IN THE MAKING WEAPON OF THE GUILD QUESTOR TRUTH AND DECEPTION DRAGONBLASTER THE DARK PRIORY and coming in March 2013, the seventh and final thrilling book, RESOLUTION.

Opposed by hordes of troops with metal weapons, several fanatically loyal if enslaved Guild Mages, and an equally dedicated Technologist, can even two potent Weapons of the Guild prevail? Read the Best-Selling series from master Fantasy writer Alastair J Archibald. Grimm and his companions then face a gruelling trek through a scorching desert before taking on a mighty army headed by the feared but charismatic General Q.

However, even defeating Armitage and his minions is not the end: a traitor lurks within Haven's ranks, an envious man with his own megalomaniacal agenda. After being forced to fight a magical duel, Grimm and his nemesis, Questor Xylox, break free and battle the hellish array of Technological devices at Armitage's command. Mage Questor Grimm Afelnor and his companions find themselves in Haven, a steel fortress in the forbidding Shest Mountains, as the unwilling guests of Armitage, the reborn avatar of a long-dead Technologist, who holds ancient techniques of mental control. Read The Sequels Too! WEAPON OF THE GUILD QUESTOR TRUTH AND DECEPTION DRAGONBLASTER THE DARK PRIORY and coming in March 2013, the seventh and final thrilling book, RESOLUTION. Brutally trained to become a human weapon, Grimm is driven to the very brink of insanity by the man who betrayed his grandfather. His lowly status also permits the ambitious and unscrupulous Prelate, Thorn Virias, to submit Grimm to the grueling Questor Ordeal. As a charity Student and the grandson of the reviled Oathbreaker, Grimm faces a difficult and uncertain future in the class-obsessed House. Once a powerful Mage Questor of the Seventh Rank, Loras fell into disgrace and was banished from the Guild, his name and honours stricken from the Guild records. At the age of seven, Grimm Afelnor is sent from his grandfather's forge to learn the craft of magic at Arnor House of the Ancient and Honourable Guild of Magic-users, Sorcerers and Thaumaturges.He soon learns that his beloved grandfather, Loras Afelnor, is not the simple blacksmith he appears.

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