Encyclopedia of Ruin Mist: The Essential Reader's Guide Second Edition
Robert Stanek
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(Ruin Mist Publications, June 23, 2013)
*** On sale for a limited time at 50% or more off digital list price.Over 1 million people have read Robert Stanek's Ruin Mist books. Not only have the Ruin Mist books been featured and reviewed in a variety of printed books and magazines, recommended by the Young Adult librarians in one of the leading magazines for libraries, they've also been bestsellers at Amazon.com, Audible.com, and beyond. For young adults and teens, Robert Stanek has written 8 Ruin Mist novels, 2 Ruin Mist novellas, and 4 comic books. These are:The Kingdoms and the Elves of the Reaches, Books 1, 2, 3, and 4In the Service of Dragons, Books 1, 2, 3, and 4Breathe of Fire (Dragons of the Hundred Worlds #1)Living Fire (Dragons of the Hundred Worlds #2)Betrayal (A Daughter of Kings #1)Deliverance (A Daughter of Kings #2)Rebirth (A Daughter of Kings #3)Discord (A Daughter of Kings #4)Presenting ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RUIN MIST: THE ESSENTIAL READER'S GUIDE, SECOND EDITION from Robert Stanek, the award-winning author of the #1 best-selling series The Kingdoms and the Elves of the Reaches. Beginning with a thoughtful and informative introduction, progressing through twelve exhaustive chapters featuring the history and origins of Ruin Mist, this compendium to the Ruin Mist phenomenon delivers enough information to satisfy even the most demanding fantasy enthusiast. Not only will readers learn about the fantasy world featured in the #1 best-selling books, they'll also learn about the diverse societies and peoples of the many realms. Also included are dozens of illustrations throughout the text. Indulge, slip away to Ruin Mist, the fictional world of Robert Stanek’s epic fantasy novels. Ruin Mist is a world unlike any other. In Ruin Mist, elves and men are ancient enemies, magic is outlawed, and books are banned to all save scholars and nobles. After the Great War that divided the peoples, the kingdoms of men plunged into a Dark Age that lasted five hundred years. To heal the lands and restore the light, the great kings decreed that magic and all that is magical, be it creature, man or device, shall be cleansed to dust. Creatures born of magic were hunted to extinction. The cleansing raged for so long that no human could recall a time without it and it is in this time that the Dark One, the one called Sathar, returned from the dark beyond. The one hope of the peoples of Ruin Mist was Queen Mother, the elf queen of old. She saw a way out of everlasting darkness, a path that required the union of the divided peoples. Yet the Elves of the West did not share her vision. To turn back the tides of one war and prepare for another, Queen Mother sent her most trusted warriors on a perilous journey across the Great Sea. The middle realms of elves and men are but just one of many. The realms beyond and between are connected by the Gates of Uver—magical gates that allow the knowing to slip between the realms. While only Uver, the mythical creator of relics of the ancients, truly knows how the gates work, it is said that the gates can be opened by the knowing using words of power. And now it is time to enter the world of Ruin Mist...