The Binder's Road (Illumination)
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ISBN: 0765343282 / Publisher: Tor Fantasy, January 2004
Six years after a conflict brings devastating weather patterns to the world of Eiden Myr, three young girls from a dying trader town fight to protect a secret that could cost them their lives, while a young handyman discovers a link between local murders and a chilling conspiracy. Reprint.
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Six years after a conflict that extinguished all mage-light, Eiden Myr is in chaos. Wild weather destroys crops; drought bakes some regions while others are flooded; mountains quake, poisoned rivers rise; disease and pestilence spread.In a dying trader town, three little girls fight to protect a secret that could cost them their lives, while a young lad-of-all-crafts finds that local murders are the first clue to a chilling conspiracy. In the far north, the remnants of the realm's warders struggle to compensate for mage-light's loss. In the south, a military race is remembering its origins. Along the shoreline, a band of guerrilla fighters, posted to repel invasion, prepares to battle for mastery of the realm-while one woman, a disgraced soldier, summons the courage to defy them all.On a remote island, a new breed of scholars strives to plumb the mysteries of ancient texts before they crumble apart. Who among them is the binder destined to reshape the shattered world.
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