One last ghastly scream escaped its throat before it died; the legs convulsed for a time before falling still. And even if there had never been cause for doubt, Ireheart’s nature would never allow him to lay aside his scruples and accept them as equals, as friends. The two lower blue eyes beneath the long bony muzzle were fixed on the ubariu and the fleeing dwarves. One arm pierced and anchored to the flank, the creature dragged itself steadfastly on, groaning and spluttering.

We also use them to help detect unauthorized access or activity that violate our terms of service, as well as to analyze site traffic and performance for our own site improvement efforts.She had spotted a helmet among the first row of smaller monsters—a helmet as worn by children of the Smith. For himself, in contrast to how his wife and children felt, they would never be more than military allies.

He studied history, German language and literature, and won the German Fantasy Award in 2003 for his debut novel Shadows Over UlldartHis Dwarves series is a bestseller across the Continent. Incorporating wall to wall action with undercurrents of dark humor, Bodyguard of Lightning is a gritty, fast-paced novel with a neat twist. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins.If monsters and fiends come pouring out of the Black Abyss I’ve got to be here to hold them back, together with you and our children and my warriors. It grunted and kicked at the black wall of rock, then strolled up to the edge, trailing an over-long sword. As it chewed it occurred to the creature that not one of the hundreds of its own kind could remember a time when the air had not shimmered. In recent cycles he had grown to know the difference between courage and the insanity that used to overtake him in battle.

The air hissed and flashed, for a second turning opaque like murky water and stopping the pebble’s flight.After a while it picked up and ate a yellow beetle emerging from under a moldering thighbone on the ground. Dragons, magicians, and the cruel älfar have advanced far into the kingdom Girdlegard, ruthlessly seizing vast areas of land. While Goda used her telescope to inspect in minute detail both the diamond and the structure, which was enclosed in the same kind of energy dome as the abyss itself, Ireheart went over to the corpse of the abyss creature. What I'm trying to ask, is The Fate of the Dwarves the concluding book of the series or is it The Triumph of the Dwarves?

Boïndil Doubleblade, known by friends and enemies alike as Ireheart on account of his ungovernable rage in combat, had observed the fate of the thin-armed creature. The artifact stood at the entrance to the Black Abyss and was composed of four interlocking vertical iron rings which formed a kind of ball with a diameter of twenty paces. The four gray upper eyes were assessing the walls of the fortress as if to judge what weaponry might be used against it and its followers.Parts of the vertical iron circles broke off and flew through the air to bury themselves in the ground several paces off. In the final installment of this spectacular fantasy epic, the greatest of the dwarves' adventures begins .