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Cover An by Michael Whelan.

Maps by Tad Williams.

For color prints of Michael Whelan paintings,

please contact:

Glass Onion Graphics

P. 0. Box 88

Brookfield. CT 06804

DAW Book Collectors No. 947.

DAW Books are distributed by Penguin U. S. A.

All characters and events in this book are fictitious-

Any resemblance to persons living or dead

is strictly coincidental.

This series is dedicated to my mother,

Barbara Jean Evans,

who taught me to search for other worlds,

and to share the things I find in them.

This final volume. To Green Angel Tower,

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in itself a little world of heartbreak and joy,

I dedicate to Nancy Deming-Williams,

with much, much love.

If you purchase this book without a cover you should be aware that this

book may have been stolen properly and reported as "unsold and destroyed"

to the publisher. In such case neither the author nor the publisher has re-

ceived any payment for this "stripped book."

First Paperback Printing, April 1994

19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10

DAW TRADEMARK REGISTERED

U. S. PAT OFF. AND FOREIGN COUNTRIES

——MARC A REGISTRADA.

HECHO EN U.S.A.

PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.

Author's Note

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And death shall have no dominion.

Dead men naked they shall be one

With the man in the wind and the west moon;

When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones

gone

They shall have stars at elbow and fool;

Though they go mad they shall be sane,

Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;

Though lovers be lost love shall not;

And death shall have no dominion .,.

——DYLAN THOMAS

(from "And Death Shall Have No

Dominion")

Tell all the truth but tell it slant,

Success in circuit lies,

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Too bright for our infirm delight

The truth's superb surprise;

As lightning to the children eased

With explanation kind,

The truth must dazzle gradually

Or every man be blind.

——EMILY DICKINSON

Many people gave me a great deal of help with these

books, ranging from suggestions and moral support to

crucial logistical aid. Eva Cumming, Nancy Deming-

Williams, Arthur Ross Evans, Andrew Harris, Paul

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Hudspeth, Peter Stampfel, Doug Werner, Michael

Whelan, the lovely folks at DAW Books, and all my

friends on GEnie® make up only a small (but significant)

sampling of those who helped me finish The Story That

Ate My Life.

Particular thanks for assistance on this final volume of

the Bloated Epic goes to Mary Frey, who put a

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bogglesome amount of energy and time into reading

and—for lack of a better word—analyzing a monstrous

manuscript. She gave me an incredible boost when I re-

ally needed it.

And, of course, the contributions of my editors, Sheila

Gilbert and Betsy Wollheim, are incalculable. Caring a lot

is their crime, and here at last is their well-deserved pun-

ishment.

To all of the above, and to all the other friends and sup-

porters unmentioned but by no means unremembered, I

give my most heartfelt thanks.

NOTE: There is a cast of characters, a glossary of terms,

and a guide to pronunciation at the back of this book.

Synopsis of

The DnuJonfione Chair

For eons the Hayholt belonged to the immortal Sithi, but

they had fled the great castle before the onslaught of

Mankind. Men have long ruled this greatest of strong-

holds, and the rest of Osten Ard as well. Prester John,

High King of all the nations of men, is its most recent

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master; after an early life of triumph and glory, he has

presided over decades of peace from his skeletal throne,

the Dragonbone Chair.

Simon, an awkward fourteen- year old, is one of the

Hayholt's scullions. His parents are dead, his only real

family the chambermaids and their stem mistress, Rachel

the Dragon. When Simon can escape his kitchen-work he

steals away to the cluttered chambers of Doctor Mor-

genes, the castle's eccentric scholar. When the old man

invites Simon to be his apprentice, the youth is

overjoyed—until he discovers that Morgenes prefers

teaching reading and writing to magic.

Soon ancient King John will die, so Elias, the older of

his two sons, prepares to take the throne. Josua, Elias'

somber brother, nicknamed Lackhand because of a disfig-

uring wound, argues harshly with the king-to-be about

Pryrates, the ill-reputed priest who is one of Elias' clos-

est advisers. The brothers' feud is a cloud of foreboding

over castle and country.

Elias' reign as king starts well, but a drought comes

and plague strikes several of the nations of Osten Ard.

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Soon outlaws roam the roads and people begin to vanish

from isolated villages. The order of things is breaking

down, and the king's subjects are losing confidence in his

rule, but nothing seems to bother the monarch or his

friends. As rumblings of discontent begin to be heard

throughout the kingdom, Elias' brother Josua disap-

pears—to plot rebellion, some say.

Elias' misrule upsets many, including Duke Isgrimnur

of Rimmersgard and Count Eolair, an emissary from the

western country of Hernystir. Even King Elias' own

daughter Miriamele is uneasy, especially about the

scarlet-robed Pryrates, her father's trusted adviser.

Meanwhile Simon is muddling along as Morgenes'

helper. The two become fast friends despite Simon's

mooncalf nature and the doctor's refusal to teach him

anything resembling magic. During one of his meander-

ings through the secret byways of the labyrinthine

Hayholt, Simon discovers a secret passage and is almost

captured there by Pryrates. Eluding the priest, he enters a

hidden underground chamber and finds Josua, who is be-

ing held captive for use in some terrible ritual planned by

Pryrates. Simon fetches Doctor Morgenes and the two of

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them free Josua and take him to the doctor's chambers,

where Josua is sent to freedom down a tunnel that leads

beneath the ancient castle. Then, as Morgenes is sending

off messenger birds to mysterious friends, bearing news

of what has happened, Pryrates and the king's guard come

to arrest the doctor and Simon. Morgenes is killed fight-

ing Pryrates, but his sacrifice allows Simon to escape into

the tunnel-

Half-maddened, Simon makes his way through the

midnight corridors beneath the castle, which contain the

ruins of the old Sithi palace. He surfaces in the graveyard

beyond the town wall, then is lured by the light of a bon-

fire. He witnesses a weird scene: Pryrates and King Elias

engaged in a ritual with black-robed, white-faced crea-

tures- The pale things give Elias a strange gray sword of

disturbing power, named Sorrow. Simon flees.

Life in the wilderness on the edge of the great forest

Aldheorte is miserable, and weeks later Simon is nearly

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dead from hunger and exhaustion, but still far away from

his destination, Josua's northern keep at Naglimund. Go-

ing to a forest cot to beg, he finds a strange being caught

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in a trap—one of the Sithi, a race thought to be mythical,

or at least long-vanished. The cotsman returns, but before

he can kill the helpless Sitha, Simon strikes him down.

The Sitha, once freed, stops only long enough to fire a

white arrow at Simon, then disappears. A new voice tells

Simon to take the white arrow, that it is a Sithi gift.

The dwarfish newcomer is a troll named Binabik, who

rides a great gray wolf. He tells Simon he was only pass-

ing by, but now he will accompany the boy to Naglimund.

Simon and Binabik endure many adventures and strange

events on the way to Naglimund; they come to realize

that they have fallen afoul of a threat greater than merely

a king and his counselor deprived of their prisoner. At

last, when they find themselves pursued by unearthly

white hounds who wear the brand of Stormspike, a moun-

tain of evil reputation in the far north, they are forced to

head for the shelter of Geloe\ forest house, taking with

them a pair of travelers they have rescued from the

hounds. Geloe, a blunt-spoken Jorest woman with a repu-

tation as a witch, confers with them and agrees that some-

how the ancient Noms, embittered relatives of the Sithi,

have become embroiled in the fate of Prester John's king-

dom.

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Pursuers human and otherwise threaten them on their

journey to Naglimund, After Binabik is shot with an ar-

row, Simon and one of the rescued travelers, a servant

girl, must struggle on through the forest. They are at-

tacked by a shaggy giant and saved only by the appear-

ance of Josua's hunting party.

The prince brings them to Naglimund, where Binabik's

wounds are cared for, and where it is confirmed that Si-

mon has stumbled into a terrifying swirl of events. Elias

is coming soon to besiege Josua's castle. Simon's serving-

girl companion was Princess Miriamele traveling in dis-

guise, fleeing her father, whom she fears has gone mad

under Pryrates' influence. From all over the north and

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elsewhere, frightened people are flocking to Naglimund

and Josua, their last protection against a mad king.

Then, as the prince and others discuss the coming bat-

tle, a strange old Rimmersman named Jarnauga appears

in the council's meeting hall. He is a member of the

League of the Scroll, a circle of scholars and initiates of

which Morgenes and Binabik's master were both part,

and he brings more grim news. Their enemy, he says, is

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Copyright©1993byTadWilliams.AllRightsReserved.CoverAnbyMichaelWhelan.MapsbyTadWilliams. ForcolorprintsofMichaelWhelanpaintings,pleasecontact: GlassOnionGraphicsP.0.Box88Brookfield.CT06804 DAWBookCollectorsNo.947.DAWBooksaredistributedbyPenguinU.S.A. Allcharactersandeventsinthisbookarefictitious-Anyr...

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