Khaavren Romances - La série

Ils sont quatre compagnons fidèles. Ils ont juré de servir l'empereur et sont entrés comme Gardes Phénix dans la compagnie du capitaine G'aereth. Leur esprit est aussi tranchant que leur lame, et tout aussi dangereux pour leurs ennemis. Khaavren a fière allure, un grand sens de l'honneur et une bonne épée ; Aerich, son meilleur ami, cache un lourd secret ; Tazendra est toujours prête à en découdre, surtout quand ses ennemis sont en surnombre et qu'elle peut utiliser ses pouvoirs magiques ; Pel est un garde en dentelles subtil et rusé, au fait des intrigues politiques... La mission qu'on leur a confiée les mènera aux confins de l'Empire dragaeran, jusqu'aux frontières des royaumes orientaux. Mais en reviendront-ils ? Quand l'acier des épées résonne, c'est tous pour un et un pour tous ! — Ils sont des milliers, observa Khaavren. — L'invasion a commencé ! s'écria Pel. — Alors, déclara Tazendra, nous allons tous mourir en même temps. C'est formidable !

Khaavren Romances 2 "Five Hundred Hears After is utterly delightful, an absorbing tale told by a master. Steven Brust holds the keys to a world where a well-honed tongue is just as important as a firmly-buckled swash. If you like action, intrigue, witand style, buy this book!” Sherwood Smith & David Trowbridge At last, Steven Brust returns with a glittering sequel to his bestselling The Phoenix Guards, reuniting our Heroes Khaavren, Pel, Aerich and Tazendra in Dragaera City, five hundred years after the events of the previous book...just in time for an uprising which threatens to destroy the Imperial Orb itself. This is the story of a conspiracy against the Empire that begins in the mean streets of the Underside and flourishes in the courtly politics of the Palace where Khaavren has loyally served in the Guards this past half-millennium. It is the tale of the Dragonlord Adron’s oveiweening schemes, of his brilliant daughter Aliera, and of the eldritch Sethra Lavode. And it is the tale of four boon companions, of love, and of revenge...a tale from the history books of Dragaera, of the events thatchanged the world. Since their debut in 1984, Steven Brust’s swashbucklingly exuberant novels of the Dragaeran Empire have gained a large and loyal following for their swordsharp wit, actionand inventiveness. Five Hundred Years After is a brilliant new work in that series and a vast, rich, and engaging epic from a writer who has already earned his place at the top of the field.

Khaavren Romances 3 Two hundred years after Adron’s Disaster, in which Dragaera City was accidentally reduced to an ocean of chaos by an experiment in wizardry gone wrong, the Empire isn’t what it used to be. Deprived at a single blow of their Emperor, of the Orb that is the focus of the Empire’s power, of their capital city with its Imperial bureaucracy, and of a great many of their late fellow citizens, the surviving Dragaerans have been limping through a long Interregnum, bereft even of the simple magic and sorcery they were accustomed to use in everyday life. How the descendants and successors of the great adventurers Khaavren, Pel, Aerich, and Tazendra are growing up in this seemingly diminished world, convinced, like their elders, that the age of adventures is over and nothing interesting will ever happen to them. They are, of course, wrong. . . . For even deprived of magic, Dragaerans fight, plot, and conspire as they breathe, and so do their still-powerful gods. The enemies of the Empire prowl at its edges, inscrutable doings are up at Dzur Mountain...and, unexpectedly, a surviving Phoenix Heir, young, Zerika, is discovered—setting off a chain of swashbuckling events that will remake the world yet again.

Khaavren Romances 4 Journeys! lntrigues! Sword fights! Young persons having adventures! Beloved older characters having adventures, too! Quests! Battles! Romance! Snappy dialogue! Extravagant food! And the missing heir to the Imperial Throne! In the swashbuckling, extravagant manner of The Phoenix Guards, Five Hundred Years After, and The Paths of the Dead, this is an old-fashioned adventure—moving at a twenty-first-century pace. The lnterregnum is over. To everyone’s astonishment, Zerika, a very young Phoenix, has coolly emerged from the Paths of the Dead, carrying with her the Orb, which everyone had thought was lost in Adron’s Disaster. The Orb is the heart of the Dragaeran Empire, the source of all its magic—and the infallible sign that Zerika is the new Empress. But not everyone is happy to hear the news. It’s been 250 years since Adron’s Disaster, and power vacuums never stay that way for long. Kana, a Dragonlord, has been expanding his holdings. He now controls almost half the area that was once the Empire—in effect, the Empire re-created, with himself on the throne.

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