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betrayed secrets to her GHILLIE: hostler and musician at the Res aB'tyrr HANGRELL: an apprentice
thief who injured Marc and whom, in turn, Jame delivered to the city guard to be flayed alive ISHTIÉR:
a renegade priest of the Three-Faced God MEN-DALIS: Theocandi's rival for Leadership of the
Thieves' Guild PENARI: Jame's master in the Thieves' Guild SCRAMP: a thief who hanged himself,
partly because of Jame THE TALISMAN: Jame's nickname in the Thieves' Guild TANISCENT
(TANIS): the Res aB'tyrr's former dancer, who died of an overdose of Dragon's Blood given her by
Bortis THEOCANDI: lord of the Thieves' Guild, who stole the Book Bound in Pale Leather from Jame
and accidentally burned his brains out with it TUBAIN: innkeeper at the Res aB'tyrr

Elsewhere
GRISHARKI: warlord of the Grindarks KRUIN: late King of Kothifir, who went hunting wolvers
KROTHEN: Kruin's son, present king of Kothifir and the Southern Host's employer MOTHER
RAGGA: the Earth Wife of Peshtar, a far-hearer ODALIAN: Prince of the Agontiri of Karkinor, a
would-be ally of the Kencyrath and Caineron's son-in-law THE WOLVER GRIMLY: a poet and
werewolf from the Grimly Holt



Prologue:
The Story So Far
SOME THIRTY MILLENNIA ago, the entity known as Perimal Darkling first breached the barrier
between the outer void and the series of parallel universes called the Chain of Creation. It began to
devour universe after universe, invading each one in turn by way of the threshold world that linked it to
the adjacent dimensions.


To meet this threat, the Three-Faced God forged together three races from different threshold worlds
into the Kencyrath. Then, apparently, he abandoned them. The Three People— Highborn, Kendar, and
catlike Arrin-ken—found themselves alone, pitted against a foe too great for them. And so the long,
bitterly fought retreat began from world to world. As the fighting skills of the Kencyrath increased, its
number dwindled and its bitterness grew. The Three People felt betrayed by their god and yet unable to
refuse the role that he had forced on them. Honor alone upheld them.


Then one man rebelled. Gerridon, Master of Knorth, Highlord of the Kencyrath, offered himself and his
followers to Perimal Darkling in exchange for immortality. He persuaded his twin sister and consort,
Jamethiel Dream-Weaver, to dance out the souls of the Kencyr Host. On that night, two-thirds of it fell.
The remnant fled to the next threshold world, Rathillien.


At this point, the Kencyrath has been on Rathillien nearly three thousand years. In all that time, there
have been no major clashes with Perimal Darkling, though the Perimal Darkling and Gerridon have taken
over part of the planet, and the Highborn have long since begun to fight among themselves. Some
thirty-three years ago, one of these power struggles, combined with a major battlefield defeat in the
White Hills, led to the exile of the then Highlord, Ganth of Knorth, called the Gray Lord.