![]() Piper Hecht, born Else Tage, survived a battle with the Instrumentalities. The Instrumentalities of the Night are the worst of these. The gods are real, and still have some power, mostly to do harm. The wells of power are weakening and the forces of Night grow strong. As his mission careens out of control, he faces unanswerable questions about his future. 34.34 5 Used from 34.34 1 New from 157.78 It's cold. But the Night rides with him, too, sending two of its once-human agents from the far north to assassinate him.Submerged in his role, he begins to doubt his faith, his country, even his family. Too ignorant to know that he can never prevail over such a thing, he fights it and wins, and in so doing, sets the terrors of the night against him.As a reward for his success, Else is sent as a spy to the heart of the Patriarchy to direct their attention away from further ventures into the Holy Lands.ĭogged by hidden enemies and faithless allies, Else witnesses senseless butchery and surprising acts of faith as he penetrates to the very heart of the Patriarchy and rides alongside their armies in a new crusade against his own people. Now an uneasy truce extends between the Pramans and the West, waiting for a spark to start the conflict anew.Then, on a mission in the Holy Land, the young Praman warrior Else is attacked by a creature of the Dark - in effect, a minor god. : The Tyranny of the Night: Book One of the Instrumentalities of the Night (9780765345967) by Cook, Glen and a great selection of similar New. Over the last century the Patriarchs of the West have demanded crusades to claim the Wells from the Pramans, the followers of the Written. And at the world's center, in the Holy Land where two great religions were born, are the Wells of Ihrain, the source of the greatest magics. At the edges of the world stand walls of ice which push slowly forward to reclaim the land for the night. Welcome to the world of the Instrumentalities of the Night, where imps, demons, and dark gods rule in the spaces surrounding upstart humanity. Fourth in the series (Surrender to the Will of the Night, 2010, etc.) featuring an alternate-world 13th century, the era of the crusadesalong with gods, demons, monsters and wizards.
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