Fall of Light
by Steven Erikson
As promised by its evocative title, in this, the second book of Steven Erikson’s Kharkanas Trilogy, night falls across the whole of the world known by the ancient Tiste Andii. But the children of Mother Dark are far from the eldest of the disparate peoples gathering against one another, as civil war wracks the shadowed land from without, and alien invaders of unknown purpose march on Kharkanas from every direction.
In the absence of his brother Sons of Darkness, Silchas Ruin must build an unlikely friendship with Grizzin Farl, called the Protector, one of the mysterious Azathanai, who are not only the most powerful of Erikson’s many and varied races, but may have in fact created all the others. The embattled general leading the forces opposed to Mother Darkness, Vatha Urusander, reforges himself into the first Mortal Sword, a title and role that will echo down hundreds of centuries to the era of the Malazan Empire. And far to the north, two characters long known to readers of the unparalleled epics of Steven Erikson, Caladan Brood and Anomander Rake, kick the ashes of a burned forest from their boots and sally forth on an errand that imperils all.
The legions of fans who have followed what can only be called a modern cycle of legends have known for decades that in these pages, not all is at is it appears. Erikson’s dragons are far more than dragons, his sorcerers draw on powers unlike any other in modern fantasy, and his gods are at one turn as petty as any human, and at another as inscrutable as the blackness between the stars.
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As promised by its evocative title, in this, the second book of Steven Erikson’s Kharkanas Trilogy, night falls across the whole of the world known by the ancient Tiste Andii. But the children of Mother Dark are far from the eldest of the disparate peoples gathering against one another, as civil war wracks the shadowed land from without, and alien invaders of unknown purpose march on Kharkanas from every direction. In the absence of his brother Sons of Darkness, Silchas Ruin must build an unlikely friendship with Grizzin Farl, called the Protector, one of the mysterious Azathanai, who are not only the most powerful of Erikson’s many and varied races, but may have in fact created all the others. The embattled general leading the forces opposed to Mother Darkness, Vatha Urusander, reforges himself into the first Mortal Sword, a title and role that will echo down hundreds of centuries to the era of the Malazan Empire. And far to the north, two characters long known to readers of the unparalleled epics of Steven Erikson, Caladan Brood and Anomander Rake, kick the ashes of a burned forest from their boots and sally forth on an errand that imperils all. The legions of fans who have followed what can only be called a modern cycle of legends have known for decades that in these pages, not all is at is it appears. Erikson’s dragons are far more than dragons, his sorcerers draw on powers unlike any other in modern fantasy, and his gods are at one turn as petty as any human, and at another as inscrutable as the blackness between the stars.