Mother of Winter
381 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 1996
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Format: Ebook
Language: English
Publisher: HarperVoyager
Publication date: 30 January 2014
Description
A RETURN TO THE REALM OF DARWATH…
Five years after the departure of the Dark from Darwath strange occurrences begin to develop in the Vale of Renwath. There are geological upheavals and an increasing amount of 'slunch' – a heavy, inedible, juiceless fungus. Cave bears, woolly mammoths and sabretooths seem to be flocking to the area. Even stranger are the sightings of 'thaght’n' – creatures who possess a kind of magic which even magician Rudy Solis cannot defeat or deceive. Thus as Gil, who crossed the void from present day California, and her lover, the wizard Ingold, return to the Keep from the flooded delta city of Penambra, they realise that something is desperately wrong …
Something, somewhere, is attempting to terraform the world by the use of to accelerate the rate of chilling until the temperature reaches the point that it – whatever 'it' is – finds comfortable …
Five years after the departure of the Dark from Darwath strange occurrences begin to develop in the Vale of Renwath. There are geological upheavals and an increasing amount of 'slunch' – a heavy, inedible, juiceless fungus. Cave bears, woolly mammoths and sabretooths seem to be flocking to the area. Even stranger are the sightings of 'thaght’n' – creatures who possess a kind of magic which even magician Rudy Solis cannot defeat or deceive. Thus as Gil, who crossed the void from present day California, and her lover, the wizard Ingold, return to the Keep from the flooded delta city of Penambra, they realise that something is desperately wrong …
Something, somewhere, is attempting to terraform the world by the use of to accelerate the rate of chilling until the temperature reaches the point that it – whatever 'it' is – finds comfortable …
