Shadow of a Dark Queen. Raymond E. Feist

known as ‘The Eagle of Krondor’; leader of a military company

      Culli – murdering mercenary

      Dawar – mercenary in Nahoot’s company

      de Loungville, Robert ‘Bobby’ – sergeant in Calis’s company

      de Savona, Luis – prisoner; later member of Calis’s company

      Durany – mercenary in Calis’s company

      Ellia – elven woman saved by Miranda

      Embrisa – girl from Village Weanat

      Esterbrook, Jacob – merchant in Krondor

      Fadawah, General – Supreme Commander of the Armies of the Emerald Queen

      Finia – woman at Village Weanat

      Foster, Charlie – guard corporal in Calis’s company

      Freida – Erik’s mother

      Galain – elf in Elvandar

      Gapi – general in Emerald Queen’s army

      Gert – old crone/charcoal burner met by Erik and Roo

      Goodwin, Billy – prisoner; later member of Calis’s company

      Greylock, Owen – Swordmaster of Baron of Darkmoor; later member of Calis’s company

      Grindle, Helmut – merchant

      Handy, Jerome – member of Calis’s company

      Jarwa – Sha-shahan of the Seven Nations of the Saaur

      Jatuk – son of Jarwa, heir and later Sha-shahan of the surviving Saaur

      Kaba – Shieldbearer to Jarwa

      Kelka – corporal in Nahoot’s company

      Khali-shi – Novindus name for Death Goddess

      Lalial – elf in Elvandar

      Lender, Sebastian – Litigator and Solicitor at Barret’s Coffee House in Krondor

      Lims-Kragma – Death Goddess

      Macros the Black – legendary sorcerer; considered the greatest practitioner of magic ever known

      Marsten – sailor on Trenchard’s Revenge

      Mathilda – Baroness of Darkmoor

      Milo – Innkeeper at Inn of the Pintail in Ravensburg

      Miranda – mysterious friend to Calis

      Monis – Jarwa’s Shieldbearer

      Mugaar – horse trader in Novindus

      Murtag – Saaur warrior

      Nakor the Isalani – strange companion of Calis

      Nathan – new smith at Inn of the Pintail in Ravensburg

      Notombi – former Keshian Legionary, then prisoner; later member of Calis’s company

      Pug – also known as Milamber; magician of great power; considered second only to Macros the Black in knowledge

      Rian – one of Zila’s mercenaries

      Rosalyn – Milo’s daughter

      Ruthia – Goddess of Luck

      Shati, Jadow – member of Calis’s company

      Shila – Saaur home world

      Sho Pi – Isalani, former Monk of Dala; later prisoner; later member of Calis’s company

      Taber – tavern keeper in LaMut

      Tarmil – villager at Weanat

      Tomas – consort of Aglaranna, father of Calis; wearer of the Armor of Ashen-Shugar, last of the Dragon Lords

      Tyndal – smith at Inn of the Pintail in Ravensburg

      von Darkmoor, Erik – bastard son of the Baron von Darkmoor; later prisoner; later mercenary in Calis’s company

      von Darkmoor, Manfred – youngest son of Otto; later Baron

      von Darkmoor, Otto – Baron of Darkmoor; father of Erik, Stefan, and Manfred

      von Darkmoor, Stefan – Otto’s eldest son

      Zila – treacherous mercenary leader

       Maps

       Book One Erik’s Tale

      Days, when the ball of our vision

      Had eagles that flew unabashed to sun;

      When the grasp on the bow was decision.

      And arrow and hand and eye were one;

      When the Pleasures, like waves to a swimmer,

      Came heaving for rapture ahead! –

      Invoke them, they dwindle, they glimmer

      As lights over mounds of the dead.

      – George Meredith

      ‘Ode to Youth in Memory’

       • Prologue • Deliverance

      The drums thundered.

      Warriors of the Saaur sang their battle chants, preparing for the struggle to come. Tattered war banners hung limply from bloodied lances as thick smoke shrouded the sky from horizon to horizon. Green faces marked with yellow and red paint watched the western skies, where fires cast crimson and ocher light against the black shroud of smoke, blocking the vanishing sun and the familiar tapestry of the western evening stars.

      Jarwa, Sha-shahan of the Seven Nations, Ruler of the Empire of Grass, Lord of the Nine Oceans, could not tear his gaze away from the destruction. All day he had watched the great fires burn, and even across the vast distance the howls of the victors and the cries of their victims had carried through the afternoon. Winds that once carried the sweet scent of flowers or the rich aroma of spices from the market now carried the acrid stench of charred wood and burned flesh. He knew without looking that those behind were bracing for the coming trial, resigned in their hearts that the battle was lost and the race would die.

      ‘My lord,’ said Kaba, his Shieldbearer and lifelong companion.

      Jarwa turned to his oldest friend and saw the concern etched faintly around his eyes. Kaba was an unreadable mask to all but Jarwa; the Sha-shahan could read him as a shaman reads a lore scroll. ‘What is it?’

      ‘The