Diese epische Saga taucht tief in die turbulenten Ursprünge der Welt Corona ein, einem Reich, in dem Geschichte geschmiedet und Legenden geboren werden. Begleiten Sie den Aufstieg mächtiger Helden und ihre Kämpfe gegen die vordringende Dunkelheit, die die Existenz des Königreichs bedroht. Die Reihe bietet detailreichen Weltenbau, vielschichtige Charaktere und packende Kampfszenen. Es ist eine fesselnde Reise in eine prägende Vergangenheit, die die Bühne für zukünftige Konflikte bereitet.
Das heroische Fantasy-Epos voller Intrigen und Kämpfe Das Land Corona wird von Fehden und Kriegen heimgesucht, und der herrschende Adel beutet das Volk bis aufs Blut aus. Selbst die Reichen wagen sich nur unter starker Bewachung auf die Landstraßen, auf denen Räuber, Söldner und Monstren ihr Unwesen treiben. Nur ein geheimnisvoller Maskierter stellt sich den Gefahren unbekümmert mit seinem Schwert entgegen. Doch den vermummten Rächer umgibt ein finsteres Geheimnis …
Auf der Suche nach seinem verlorenen Vater reist Bransen Garibond über den Golf von Corona in das wilde Land Vanguard. Dort wird er dazu gezwungen, an dem verzweifelten Krieg gegen den brutalen Samhaist Badden teilzunehmen. Doch in der Nähe von Baddens magischer Eisburg leben an einem großen See einige Völker, die in ihren eigenen Krieg verwickelt sind, ohne von den Absichten des Samhaists zu wissen. Bransen ist der Einzige, der beide Welten miteinander verbinden kann. Wenn er versagt, werden die Völker am See untergehen und der Schatten der gnadenlosen und rachsüchtigen Samhaists wird sich über das ganze nördliche Honce legen.
The vast road network of Honce, completed a decade before, had brought great optimism to the people of the land. Commerce could travel more freely and so could armies, and those armies, it was hoped, would rid the land at long last of the vicious, bloody cap dwarfs and goblins. For the first time, the many individual kingdoms, the holdings of Honce, would be brought closer together, perhaps even united. For the last few years, those promises had become a nightmare to the folk, as two powerful lairds fought for supremacy of a hoped-for united kingdom. Bransen Garibond, the Highwayman, held little real interest in that fight. To him the warring lairds were two sides of the same coin. Whichever side won, the outcome for the people of Honce would be the same, Bransen believed. A journey north, however, taught Bransen that his views were simplistic at best, and that some things--like honor and true friendship-- might truly matter. In The Dame, the third volume in R.A. Salvatore's Saga of the First King series, Bransen's road becomes a quest for the truth, of Honce and of himself, a quest to put right over wrong. That path is fraught with confusion and fraud, and a purposeful blurring of morality by those who would seek to use the Highwayman's extraordinary battle skills and popularity among the commonfolk for their own nefarious ends.
The war of Honce drags on, and the roads and seas are littered with bodies. To everyone's stunned disbelief, Yeslnik the Fool has tipped the war's scales in his favor. The reign of the newly self-appointed King Yeslnik is already distinguished as the most bloody and merciless in Honce history. Trapped, Dame Gwydre and Father Artolivan concoct a desperate plot to join forces with Laird Ethelbert, the lesser of two vicious evils. But Ethelbert's paid assassins slew Jameston Sequin and nearly did the same to Bransen. Embittered by it all, Bransen seeks to extricate himself from the selfish goals of all of combatants. But in an odd twist of fate and crossed loyalties, Bransen sees in his old nemesis, Bannagran--the Bear of Honce and the man who slew his adoptive father - a darker image of his own heart. Allies and battle lines become tangled, motives indistinguishable as old friends become enemies and old enemies become allies, in R.A. Salvatore's The Bear, the fourth book in the Saga of the First King series.
The exciting conclusion to R. A. Salvatore's Saga of the First Kings series brings together the final chapters of a captivating narrative set in the rich world of the DemonWars. This collection showcases the culmination of epic adventures and character arcs, offering fans a chance to experience the thrilling resolution of the saga in one volume. With Salvatore's signature storytelling, readers are immersed in a realm of fantasy, conflict, and resolution.