On the side of a hill, a boy dreams in quiet contentment. All is well and peaceful in his ordered world - but not for long... In The King Sword events, whose birth was presaged in ages past, stir to life and touch the lives of those who least want to know them. A family blessing is also a curse of the blood and its time of emergence has come.
The only mortal hand that can stay this nascent malice is that of a child, barely fit to face the trials of life, let alone the depths of an ageless mind.
THE KING SWORD relates the adventures of Doran, a young goatherd, and his companions. At the start of the book, he is an unremarkable young man from a quiet village in the Freelands.
His life is thrown into turmoil by a series of strange and disturbing events which result in his becoming involved in the search for an ancient and apparently malevolent object, THE KING SWORD.
Aided and accompanied by Koval, village scholar and mentor, Mennan, enigmatic woodsman and Balgrim, a strange forest creature, Doran searches both for the mysterious object and for his own identity.
This quest takes them across the face of the lands of Erderelm. Along the way they meet many more friends and foes until they finally find the object of their search but not in the way that they expect or would choose.
To my mind, good fantasy writing - and certainly great fantasy writing! - requires at least three essential skills to work effectively:-
1) Characters - the writer must create people who are convincing and about whom we care. We do not need to like them - in some cases we definitely will not, hopefully - but we do need to care what happens to them. The greatest enemy of good characterisation is indifference.
2) Words - the simple joy in the use of words, the lingering over a well loved description, the pride in a well turned phrase.
3) Narrative - the skill which is as old as man of telling a story in a way which grips and holds the audience and impels them to want to know more.
If a writer has ability in these three, he is in with half a chance!
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