Alexey Pehov - Chasers of the Wind

Superiors The sorcerer-necromancers of the Eighth Sphere, the most powerful mages of Sdis, who go through their training under the supervision of Leprosy. The Superiors hold all the power over their country, subject only to the Damned.

Uloron (The Country of Oaks) The first homeland of the Highborn. It consists of the forests near the Katugian Mountains, conquered by the Empire from this race and returned after the conclusion of peace in exchange for the eastern part of the Boxwood Mountains and the Eastern Lands.

War of the Necromancers Broke out after the Dark Revolt and swept through the whole of the south and part of the north of the Empire. The Army of the Damned fought against the armies of the Empire and the Walkers. Later, Sdis and Nabator allied themselves with the mage-apostates. The war lasted for fifteen years. It bled the south of the country dry and incinerated Bragun-Zan during a terrible magical battle between the Walkers and the Damned.

The outcome of the war ended with the defeat of the Sextet (one of the causes for the loss was the death of Cholera) and they departed for Sdis, and then beyond the Great Waste. For its part, the Empire lost the territories beyond the Boxwood Mountains, which were transferred to the Kingdom of Nabator.

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ALEXEY PEHOV is the award-winning author of The Chronicles of Siala and a bestseller in his native Russia. His novel Under the Sign of the Mantikor was named Book of the Year and Best Fantasy Novel in 2004 by Russia’s largest fantasy magazine, World of Fantasy .

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CHASERS OF THE WIND

Copyright © 2005 by Aleksey Pehov

English translation copyright © 2014 by Aleksey Pehov

Originally published as Искатели ветра (Iskateli vetra) by Издательство Альфа-книга (Izdatelstvo Alfa-kniga) in Moscow, Russia

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First Edition: June 2014