Elven Star
On steamy Pryan, never-ending sunlight and plentiful rain have created a jungle so vast that humans and elves dwell high in the trees and only dwarves live anywhere near the ground. From the treetops the aristocratic elves sell weapons to the other races, whose incessant warfare sends a steady...
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On steamy Pryan, never-ending sunlight and plentiful rain have created a jungle so vast that humans and elves dwell high in the trees and only dwarves live anywhere near the ground. From the treetops the aristocratic elves sell weapons to the other races, whose incessant warfare sends a steady steam of profits and essential resources skyward. Now, generations of dissent and race hatred will not heal -- not even under the threat of annihilation at the hands of legendary Titans. Armed with little more than their wits and prophecy, an elf, a human, and a dwarf must unite to try to save the world from destruction.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780553290981 (0553290983)
Publish date: July 1st 1991
Publisher: Spectra
Pages no: 360
Edition language: English
Series: The Death Gate Cycle (#2)
From the blurb: "On steamy Pryan, never-ending sunlight and plentiful rain have created a jungle so vast that humans and elves dwell high in the trees and only dwarves live anywhere near the ground. From the treetops the aristocratic elves sell weapons to the other races, whose incessant warfare ...
I love this book almost as much as I do Dragon Wing, the first book in the series. Where Dragon Wing had conspiring, betrayal, and adventures, Elven Star focuses on relationships and how the characters all interact with one other.Two and a half families are focused upon in this book. There is the Qu...
One upside to having your fantasy series feature many worlds is that, if you like, you can have an all-out apocalypse on one of them and still have plenty of larger story left. I won't say whether or not the apocalypse here is successful, but the point is that the series is structured in such a way ...