TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lackey,Mercedes
AU  - Dixon,Larry
TI  - The mage wars: a Valdemar omnibus 
T2  - Mage wars
SN  - 9781783296149
U1  - LACK 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - Titan Books
KW  - Wizards
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Magic
KW  - Good and evil
KW  - Fantasy fiction, American
KW  - fast
KW  - Valdemar (Imaginary place)
KW  - Fantasy fiction
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Black gryphon --; White gryphon --; Silver gryphon
N2  - FANTASY. Set around three thousand years before the rest of the Valdemar series, this is the ancient history of Velgarth and the story of Skandranon Rashkae, a gryphon with gleaming ebony feathers, keen magesight and acute intelligence. He is the fulfillment of all that the Mage of Silence, the human sorcerer called Urtho, intended to achieve when he created these magical beings to be his champions, the defenders of his realm - a verdant plain long coveted by the evil mage Ma'ar. Together with Amberdrake, a Healer of body, mind and spirit, Skandranon will defend his nation from his evil counterparts created by Ma'ar, the makaar. The glorious city of White Gryphon will rise from the ashes, but it will take careful negotiation, spying and terrible war against the mysterious Black Kings to secure the stronghold. Even then, the elite guard force, the Silver Gryphons, will discover a greater terror lurking in the forests beyond the city walls
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