Fay

Old magic made the world-and could be its undoing.Now a battle-tested warrior, Brend has repeatedly taken awful gambles in which luck and the secret of the Cambiril have delivered a series of tactical victories against Balê's army. The result has been an uneasy fame that is both help and hindrance as a fragile refugee army begins to coalesce in two factions-one around Brend and the Fianwë, the other around Prince Æthgrun, ambitious heir to the southern throne of Kinnabyrn. With Brend's fame has also come rising suspicion, even among friends and allies, of his improbable achievements. The conflicted friendship shared by Brend, Aly, and Ned is tested to its limit. At the same time, dire news arrives from Tic, the Fianwë spy: The Dark Fay, a magical race enslaved to Balê, have come down from the northern mountains and begun to raise earth, water, and sky to make a final end of the South.Assailed by the overwhelming threat of the Dark Fay, Tin'ntiri and Brend make a desperate attempt to lead the Army of the South into the lee of a reclusive and uncertain ally, the Silquin Fay-Fay of the Daylight. When all seems nearly lost, Tin'ntiri's darksome friend, Cam'ndair, returns, and Brend must make a fatal choice: confront the Dark God in His northern fastness or heed the clamoring of an incessant dream to turn aside and finally pursue the Secret of the Gods. One way or another, the world will be remade. The Fay, Books of Sky is the third volume of The Thirteenth Essene.