The Forge of Gilliath, Part 1
The Nine Fold Gate Book 4
Coming February 2024
‘This is not a game, soul keeper.’ There was a sudden anger in Anoria’s voice that caused Himminel to rock back. ‘You and your allies seem to believe that this is a war you can win. That you fight to save the world. You have coloured yourselves heroic. But you are wrong. This a war to save what little you can of the world….’
Scarrow’s army of wolven are rampaging through Liss, destroying everything and leaving an empty land in their wake. Only the half giant Carnutan can stop him and his monsterous hoard from spreading. With the aid of Hacker and Iordanis, she must complete Bera’s plan, fight Scarrow and wrest control of the wolven from him. But the goddess of the wild does nothing without a reason. Iordanis sets out to discover what the goddess truly wants.
In Hugharan-Vash, recent enemies are building a fragile alliance. Gilliath promises his help and protection, but this is a new Gilliath and even Brennus begins to doubt that he can be trusted.
In the desert land of Bassanai, an expedition is hastily formed to search for the fabled City of the Dead where a great power lies concealed. A power that can save Bassanai and all the world from destruction.
In the city of Mazam-O-the Gate, Anoria, ancient founder of the Velvet Speakers meets a day she long seen coming and a battle she has prepared for her entire life. She must find a woman called Snee and The King of Bears and set them on the right path. But even Anoria cannot see what lies at the end of the road.
And in Ophir, Graise, the Avatar Queen, secures her throne and set her plans to rebuild the empire of old.
Characters
Baelon
Baelon has spent his life being kicked out of towns and villages like he’s a bad smell…but then he generally smells damp and musty and abandoned so it’s hardly unexpected.
And then one day in the northern town of T’eag, whilst standing on an upturned bucket on the corner where Honey Street meets The Rag Market, words just flood into his brain. Words he didn’t think. He meets two people who will change his life.
What follows is a nightmare.
Snee
Twenty years ago, Snee was the Night Commander of the Watch to the King of T’eag.
Until, that is, one fateful night when the Queen gave birth to her first born child. Even as the queen lay screaming in her bed, Snee and her friend Twizzle hunted a thief through the streets of T’eag and through the teeth of a terrible blizzard.
What they found in the cold changed them utterly and shattered their lives.
Wolfram
Wolfram was born to Vulfmar, brother to King Hurm and Lord of the dwarven house of Raft. On Vulfmar’s death, Wolfram was recalled to Raft to take his fathers place.
But Wolfram had left the north years earlier, disgusted with the treachery and duplicity of the dwarven court. No coward, he desired enemies he could fight head on, rather than ones whose chosen weapons were poison, lies and deceit.
But the lordship of the house of Raft is still vacant, and King Hurm is not one to leave a seat of power un-filled.