Midnight Tides

isbn 0553813145 9780553813142
After decades of internecine warfare, the tribes of the Tiste Edur have at last united under the Warlock King of hte Hiroth. There is peace - but it ihas been exacted at a terrible price: a pact made with a hidden power whose motives are at bet suspect, at worst deadly.

To the south, the expantionist kingdom of Lether, eager to fulfil its long prophesied renaissance as an Empire reborn, has enslaved all its less-civilised neighbours with rapacious hunger. All, that is, save one - the Tiste Edur. And it must be only a matter of time before they too fall - either beneath the suffocating weight of gold, or by slaughter at the edge of a sword. Or so Destiny has decreed.

Yet, as the two sides gather for a pivotal treaty neither truly wants, ancient forces are awakening. For the impending struggle between these two peoples is but a pale reflection of a far more profound, primal battle - a confrontation with the still-raw wound of an old betrayal and the craving for revenge ot its seething heart...