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First Summer's Eve has come and all elves celebrate as the black moon's shadow fades from the world. It is also Luthiel's fifteenth birthday. With it come two extraordinary and dangerous surprises: a Wyrd Stone, its silvery heart a window into a world of dreams and nightmares, and a Blade... read more
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First Summer's Eve has come and all elves celebrate as the black moon's shadow fades from the world. It is also Luthiel's fifteenth birthday. With it come two extraordinary and dangerous surprises: a Wyrd Stone, its silvery heart a window into a world of dreams and nightmares, and a Blade... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
Cast of Characters/Important People
- Luthiel: Orphaned under mysterious circumstances and raised by the elves of Flir-Light hollow, Luthiel is a bit insecure and uncertain of her place among the Fae. Called a strangling by many of her peers, and ridiculed by the sorcerer and village Wisdom, Elag, she feels she possesses few talents of worth. Her best friend and foster sister, Leowin, is a constant companion, co-conspirator, and the instigator of many capers and adventures.
- Leowin: First daughter of the Valshae family, Leowin is both reckless and mischievous. Possessed of a talent for getting into and out of tight spots, she is also gifted with stunning insight which is a sometimes surprising foil to her glib tongue. Leowin's deepest ambition is to be an elfin Secret Finder.
- Vanye: This grim and imposing elf is a Blade Dancer -- one of the mystical and solitary guardians of the Faelands. As with most Blade Dancers, the elves share a feeling of unease about Vanye, seeing him as a dark and dangerous necessity. Blade Dancers are most infamous for their terrible duty -- naming Chosen and ensuring they go to feed the terrible Vyrl of the Vale of Mists.
- Vaelros: The grandson of Zalos and one of his seven captains.
- Elag: Sorcerer and Wisdom to the village of Flir Light Hollow.
- Othalas: The eldest of most feared of all werewolves. Othalas comes to collect children for the Vyrl.
Memorable Quotes
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“I cannot change what will happen. I can only change how I act in the face of it.”
Luthiel -
“Words. What are they but shadows on the page or howling in the wind?”
Othalas -
“May your feet ever walk in the light of two suns. May the moonshadow never fall on you.”
First Sentence
'To be me is to be different,' she thought as she watched them, from her place apart from them, upon the hillside...
Table of Contents
The Lilting
Prologue: A Dispatch of the Lord Tuorlin
BOOK I
1. Luthiel
2. Leowin
3. The Wyrd Stone
4. A Blade Dancer Comes
5. The Chosen
6. Silent Farewell
7. Into the World of Dreams
8. Race to the Vale
9. The Sorcerer's House
10. A Night Terror
11. Spiders and Werewolves
12. Into the Vale of Mists
13. The Cave of Painted Shadows
14. A Castle in the Mists
15. The Vyrl
BOOK II
16. The Mist's Changing Magic
17. Melkion the Dragon
18. Summoned by Monsters
19. The Blood of Vlad Valkire
20. Rendillo the Grendilo
21. The Pools of Ottomnos
22. Ashiroth's Army
23. Luthiel's Promise
24. Seven Ride to Ottomnos
25. A Darkness in Dreams
26. Lady of Ottomnos
27. Gift of the Bond
28. A Brief Rest
29. Cutter's Shear -- The Sword of Vlad Valkire
30. Armies Gather
31. A Secret Council
32. Vaelros' Tale
33. A Piece of a Shadow Crown
34. Thrar Taurmori the Demon Lord
35. Do No Harm Without Need
36. How the Widdershae Came to Be
37. Escape
38. Leaving Ottomnos
APPENDICES
Appendix I: The Elfin Runes
Appendix II: The Suns and Moons of Oesha
Glossary
Acknowledgments
Glossary
- Blade Dancer: These mystical knights are granted supernatural power through their connection with The World of Dreams. Each bonds with a dream-forged weapon known as a Kat-o-Fae -- animate flower-like devices with blades instead of petals. Not only are Blade Dancers responsible for defending the Faelands against every form of horror, they are also charged with selecting Chosen -- elfin children sent to feed the vampiric Vyrl in The Vale of Mists.
- Lilani: Places were dream magic pushes into the real world. A person stepping into a Lilani may travel to another place in the real world by riding a river of dreams.
- Black Moon: The eighth moon of Oesha rises with winter and draws behind it a curtain of darkness that covers even the stars. With the Black Moon comes a plague of cold, nightmares that cross into the real world to hunt the living, and what elves call deep night. The Black Moon was not always so terrible. It was once a verdant, Eden-like place and, in ancient times, elves would travel through Lilani to frolic in its bountiful forests. But, long ago, Vyrl and greedy spirits of burning ruined it. Now it is barren waste and darkness follows it.
Series
This is book 1 in the Luthiel's Song series.
Authors & Contributors
- Robert Fanney (Author)
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