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Paperback. Pub Date:2005-03-07 336 English HarperCollins UK From the author of the internationally accalaimed Orcs series comes a powerful new epic fantasy to rival the work of Raymond E.Feist and David Gemmell.Cursed with immortality and episodes of uncontrollable. berserk fury. Reeth Caldason is desperate to find a cure for his magical affliction.His search has brought him to the island state of Bhealfa. ruled by a despot and trapped between two powerful rival empires.Here. after decades of carefully avoiding all personal attachments. he finds himself entangled with a Resistance movement intent on founding a utopia free from tyranny.The paladin clans. a fearsome order of mercenary knights who provide government security. are determined to crush the growing rebellion.Devlor Bastorran. the cruel. and possibly mad. heir apparent to the clan leader...