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The Silver Crown

by Joel Rosenberg

Guardians of the Flame

Book Three

Acknowledgments

I'd like to thank Mary Kittredge, Mark J. McGarry, and most particularly Harry F. Leonard, all of whom

helped to make this a better book than it otherwise would have been. This is both my fourth book and the

fourth time I've thanked all of them in print; that isn't coincidental.

I'd be more than a little remiss if I didn't also thank my agent, Richard Curtis; my editor, Sheila Gilbert,

for her advice, support, and patience; my favorite policeman, Officer William T. Badger, NHPD/VSU, for

creating the quiet; and Felicia, for the usual—and more.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success,

than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

—Niccoló Machiavelli

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

Ahrmin—master slaver

Fenrius, Danared—journeyman slavers

The Matriarch of the Healing Hand Society

Doria—Hand acolyte

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Karl Cullinane—warrior, raiding-team leader

Tennetty, Ch'akresarkandyn ip Katharhdn, Piell ip Yratha—squad leaders in Karl Cullinane's raiding

team

Walter Slovotsky—Karl Cullinane's second-in-command; thief, warrior, smartass

Wellem, Erek, Therol, Donidge, Hervean, Firkh, Restius—warriors, members of Karl Cullinane's raiding

team

Gwellin, Gerrin, Daherrin—dwarf warriors, members of Karl Cullinane's raiding team

Sternius—master slaver

Jilla, Danni—slaves

Ellegon—a young dragon

Henrad—novice wizard; Andrea's apprentice

Andrea Andropolous Cullinane—wizard, teacher, Karl Cullinane's wife

Jason Cullinane—Karl and Andrea's son

Aeia Eriksen Cullinane—Karl and Andrea's adopted daughter, teacher

Mikyn—freed slave

Alezyn—Mikyn's father

Ahira Bandylegs—Home Mayor

Louis Riccetti—ex-wizard, the Engineer

Ranella, Bast—apprentice Engineers

U'len—cook

Thellaren—Spidersect cleric

Kirah Slovotsky—Walter Slovotsky's wife

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Jane Michele Slovotsky—Walter and Kirah's daughter

Ihryk—farmer, houseman

Pendrill—stableman

Werthan—farmer

Anna Major— Werthan's wife

Anna Minor—Werthan and Anna Major's daughter

Afbee—assassin

Nehera—dwarf blacksmith

Daven—warrior, raiding-team leader

Wraveth, Taren—warriors, members of Daven's raiding team

Jherant ip Therranj—elf warrior

Dhara ip Therranj—emissary from Lord Khoral of Therranj

Beralyn, Lady Furnael

Thomen Furnael—heir to barony Furnael

Chton—farmer, leader of Joiner faction

Petros—farmer, of sorts

Harwen, Ternius—farmers

Valeran—guard captain in the service of Lord Gyren of Enkiar

Halvin—Valeran's second-in-command

Norfan—one of Valeran's warriors

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Prince Harffen Pirondael—ruler of Bieme

Aveneer—warrior, raiding-team leader

Frandred—Aveneer's second-in-command

Theren, Thermen, Migdal—warriors, members of Aveneer's raiding team

Zherr, Baron Furnael

Garavar—a captain of the House Guard

Taren—warrior of the House Guard

Arthur Simpson Deighton/Arta Myrdhyn—lecturer in philosophy, master wizard

Introduction

It had long since ceased being a game. Friends didn't really die in a game.

But... it had been just a game, years before. Professor Arthur Simpson Deighton was the gamemaster.

Karl Cullinane, Jason Parker, James Michael Finnegan, Doria Perlstein, Walter Slovotsky, Andrea

Andropolous, and Lou Riccetti had sat down for an evening of fantasy gaming. The game suddenly,

without warning, became real: James Michael became Ahira Bandylegs, a powerful dwarf; skinny Karl

Cullinane turned into Barak, a massive warrior; Lou Riccetti became Aristobulus, wielder of powerful

magicks; Andrea became Lotana, novice wizard.

It had become real, every bit as real as the pain Jason Parker felt in his last moments kicking on the end of

a bloody spear, every bit as real as Ahira's fiery death, and his resurrection by the Matriarch of the

Healing Hand Society.

But there was a price to be paid for that resurrection: Karl and the others promised to fight to end slavery.

They declared war on the Pandathaway-based Slavers' Guild, the dealers in human flesh who traveled

across the Eren regions, securing and selling their cargo.

Attacking the slavers was one thing—but what to do with the freed slaves? Some could be sent home, but

some had no home to go back to. That was easily solved: They built Home, a new kind of society for the

world they found themselves in.

Aeia Eriksen did have a home to go back to, a village in Melawei. While returning her there, Karl

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discovered evidence that Professor Deighton was actually the almost legendary wizard Arta Myrdhyn,

who had left a magical sword in a cave, clutched in fingers of light, waiting.

Waiting for whom? For Karl's son, it seemed; Deighton/Arta Myrdhyn had plans for Karl's son....

Not my son, Karl said. He left the sword of Arta Myrdhyn in Melawei and returned Home, continuing to

venture out and attack Slavers' Guild caravans wherever they could be found.

It had long since ceased being a game.

A revolution is never a game; it is, in more senses than one, a bloody mess.

PROLOGUE

Ahrmin

"You may enter, Ahrmin," the acolyte said. She was a slim woman, dressed in the long white robes of the

Healing Hand Society. Her long blond hair shimmered in the sunlight as she stared coolly at him out of

the yellow-irised eyes set exotically but not unpleasantly far apart in her high-cheekboned face.

Idly, Ahrmin estimated that she was easily worth thirty gold; he could remove that air of superiority

within a tenday, perhaps less. Perhaps much less.

She shook her head as though in response to his unvoiced comment. "You, and you alone. The others

shall remain outside. It is unpleasant enough to tolerate their presence on the preserve; I will not have

their breath fouling the air of the tabernacle itself."

She started to turn away, but spun back as Fenrius growled and started toward her. Fenrius towered

menacingly over her slim form, but the huge man froze in place as the acolyte raised her hand, all the

while murmuring soft words that Ahrmin could hear clearly, but never recall. As always, he tried to

remember them, but he couldn't; they vanished as the sounds touched his ears.

As the spell ended, the cleric gripped the air in front of her; Fenrius' arms flew down to his sides, his

leather tunic wrinkling as though he were in the grip of a giant invisible hand. Muscles stood out cordlike

on his unshaven cheeks; his mouth worked silently, lips drawn wide in a soundless gasp as sweat beaded

on his forehead.

"No," she said, smiling gently, almost affectionately. "Not here. Here, you are within the grasp of the

Hand. In more senses than one." She began to tighten the grip of her straining fingers. Leather squealed in

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