Peril's Gate
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Peril's Gate is volume six of the Wars of Light and Shadow by Janny Wurts. It is also volume three of the Alliance of Light, the third story arc in the Wars of Light and Shadow.
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On the world of Athera, two half brothers gifted of Light and Shadow defeated the Mistwraith. Its revenge left them cursed to life-long enmity, splitting the world into war and coils of deadly intrigue. Lysaer and his Alliance of Light have raised new forces and touched on the lore of blood magecraft to bring down Arithon, Master of Shadow. The Koriani enchantresses also seek to capture Arithon, and use him as their pawn to destroy the world's balance and break the Fellowship Sorcerer's compact.
Their wily enemy seems ripe for defeat. Just escaped from the scaffold, now set under heated pursuit, Arithon is thwarted in his plans to rejoin the spellbinder, Dakar, and slip off to safety at sea. The failed Koriani plot to take him has loosed unnatural forces: imbalances weaken the wards that confine the Mistwraith, a breaking crisis which forces Dakar's return to Fellowship service.
Arithon must flee inland alone, over the mountains to Daon Ramon Barrens. Harried by winter weather and armed guards, he will ride into the teeth of Lysaer's specialized assault troops. His nearest defenders are Jieret's clan war band, a diminutive force too small to prevail, and too far away to bring rescue. Other interests entangle their thread with Arithon's fate: the ousted Sorcerer, Davien the Betrayer, stirs from his retreat in Kewar Tunnel. Elaira, the enchantress who holds Arithon's heart, walks the narrows path of the all -- her choice: to betray the man she loves to the Koriani Prime, or to risk self-destruction in rebellion against her order.
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Stephen R. Donaldson: Janny Wurts writes with astonishing energy; she aims high. Just when you think she's gone as far as anyone can go, she raises the stakes... it ought to be illegal for one person to have so much talent.
Diana Gabaldon: Janny Wurts builds beautiful castles in the air... where every detail is richly imagined and vividly rendered.
Guy Gavriel Kay: With each new book it becomes more and more obvious how important Janny Wurts is to contemporary fantasy.
