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SUMMARY: Book Three of The RunelordsWizardborn continues the story of the struggle of Gaborn, now the Earth King, who has lost his powers but continues to lead his people. He must contend with the threat of the huge, inhuman Reavers, whose myriads Gaborn and his forces must now pursue across the nation. It has become Gaborn's fate to follow, even into the depths.Raj Ahten, the great warlord endowed with the strength and qualities of thousands of men, once the primary threat to Gaborn, now struggles to retain his own empire. His war of conquest thwarted, his very life is now threatened by the Reaver thousands. And a young girl, Averan, who has eaten a Reaver and absorbed some of its memories, becomes a keystone in the search for the dark Reaver lair.

Review

Third in Farland's Runelords series, picking up where "Brotherhood of the Wolf" (1999) left off. Runelords take "endowments" of strength, wit, glamour, etc., from their subjects, turning them into superhuman beings but leaving their "dedicates" bereft of whatever quality they endowed. Gaborn, now the Earth King, must continue the battle against his rival and foe, the runelord Raj Ahten; and since Raj Ahten is Chosen, Gaborn as Earth king cannot slay him. Both realms are threatened by invading reavers, orc-like nonhumans, and their mages. Gaborn's hopes of defeating the reavers lies with young Averan, who has absorbed some of a reaver mage's powers, and the wise Earth mage Binnesman. Colorful, inventive magics, vigorous plotting, and gore aplenty - along with rather faceless characters and the usual nonending.. (Kirkus Reviews)

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Volume three in Fantasy's most exciting series since Robert Jordan Reeling from the battle at Carris, the young king Gaborn Val Orden finds that he has lost the powers that let him protect his people. As he struggles to rid his land of reavers, he discovers that the creatures are more resourceful and terrifying than even he imagined. Desperate for any weapon that will aid him in this battle, all of his hopes come to rest upon the nine-year-old girl, Averan, the Wizardborn apprentice to the earth wizard Binnesman. Despite her fears, he must convince her to lead him in battle against the reaver lord of the underworld. Meanwhile the ailing Wolf Lord, Raj Ahten, learns that a reaver horde is decimating his own homeland, there he confronts his enemy, and finds that he must choose to strip himself of all humantiy or face ultimate defeat.