![]() ![]() The Holy War is the name of the great host called by Maithanet, the Shriah of the Thousand Temples, to liberate Shimeh from the heathen Fanim of Kian. The Major Languages and Dialects of Eärwa The Darkness That Comes Before is a history of this great Holy War, and like all histories, the survivours write its conclusion. Among them, two men and two women are ensnared by a mysterious traveller, Anasûrimbor Kellhus-part warrior, part philosopher, part sorcerous, charismatic presence-from lands long thought dead. It’s a world scarred by an apocalyptic past, evoking a time both two thousand years past and two thousand years into the future, as untold thousands gather for a crusade. Scott Bakker’s Prince of Nothing series creates a remarkable world from whole cloth-its language and classes of people, its cities, religions, mysteries, taboos, and rituals-the kind of all-embracing universe Tolkien and Herbert created unforgettably in the epic fantasies The Lord of the Rings and Dune. ![]() Strikingly original in its conception, ambitious in scope, with characters engrossingly and vividly drawn, the first book in R. ![]()
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