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Jhinn stopped as Zahir stopped, and he looked to him sidelong. Still there lingered a trace of that old strangeness, of seeing in the flesh men who were not of the dragon-filled north, but men who were from the Unknown West. The sight of other men of Amol-Kalit redounded this sense of...

Jhinn opened his eyes and turned his head and everywhere he looked a wash of green drowned his gaze in its high tide. He pressed his palms to the cold stone floor and pushed himself up, rising like an ancient and slumbering creature the world had forgotten but some unseen, eternal warden bid to...

Jhinn blinked, his eyebrows rose and settled, and he remarked, "The fullness of your name is great...but Zahir will suit, yes." Briefly he wondered how common such a practice this was in the West. Surely a great many mysteries lay across the ocean. Through the waste they went, rough land...

Jhinn watched the Tirnua Traveler go, descending to lower ground and passing over what squat shadows the overhead sun cast. "What did he say?" asked Toreth blithely, grinning in morbid fashion. He did not speak Common, though Jhinn had no doubt that Zeuraad did, and Master Deimos above him as...

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...which you may have heard of. "I have heard of neither," said Jhinn. "Little is known of the West here." The tale was as old as the Ascended King himself, that of lands other than Malakath. But though belief in the Ascended King remained strong, notions of "Liadain" and "Epressa" had faded...

"They were right," said Jhinn without looking to the owner of the new voice, sawing away still at Toreth's horn. At last the horn snapped free from its base, and Jhinn held it in his other hand. Toreth panted heavily, sweat rolled down his forehead, and in frustration he demanded, "Aren't you...

MALAKATH The winds of the wastes whistled above the rocky outcropping. Higher still the blistering sun burned in the apex of the day. Malakath was a land of danger, some places more perilous than others, and here, north of the Jagged Teeth mountain ranges, few would willingly dare to tread...