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FOR OVER FIFTY years,Andre Norton , "one of the most distinguished living SF and fantasy writers"
(Booklist) , has been penning best-selling novels that have earned her a unique place in the hearts and
minds of readers. She has been honored with a Life Achievement Award by the World Fantasy
Convention, and her numerous science-fiction and fantasy novels have garnered her millions of devoted
readers across the globe. Works set in her fabled Witch World, as well as others, such asThe
Elvenbane (with Mercedes Lackey) andBlack Trillium (with Marion Zimmer Bradley and Julian May),
have made her "one of the most popular authors of our time"(Publishers Weekly) . She lives in Winter
Park, Florida.

Mercedes Lackeyhas enjoyed best-selling success with her many fantasy works, including her
much-acclaimed adventures set in the fabled world of Valdemar. While much of her work lies in epic
fantasy, she has enjoyed successful forays into dark fantasy, with her Diana Tregarde books, and
contemporary fantasy, which includes her recently publishedSacred Ground . She is one of the most
popular fantasy authors on the scene today. She lives with her husband, artist and author Larry Dixon, in
Tulsa, Oklahoma.



Witch World

-- Storms of Victory (1991)--




The Chronicler

THERE was a time when the hilt of a sword or the butt of a dart gun rested more easily in my grip than
this pen. Now I record the deeds of others, and strange tales have I gathered. That I find myself a
chronicler of others' deeds is one of those tricks which fate can play upon a man.
 In the backwater of quiet which is Lormt a man must make his own work. I have been fortunate in that I
am drawn more and more to the seeking of knowledge, even though it chances that I am but a beginner
and must do so vicariously through the recounting of the deeds of others. Though sometimes, more and
more, it comes to me that I have not yet done with an active role in that eternal war of the Light against
the Dark.

My name is Duratan and I am of the House of Harrid (which means nothing now). Though I take
commissions these days to search family rolls for many divided clans, I have never found any bloodkin to
my house. It is sometimes a lone thing not to call any kin.

I came into Estcarp as a babe, having been born just at that black time when Duke Yvian horned all the
Old Race and there was a mighty bloodletting. My nurse brought me hither before she died of a fever
and I was fostered.

From then my destiny followed the pattern known to all my exiled people. I was trained to arms from the
time

I could hold a weapon made to my measure--for there was no other life then when the Kolder devils
loosed all our enemies upon us.