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La terre des héros Séries

Embarquez pour une saga de fantasy épique où des héros d'une époque révolue affrontent des maux anciens menaçant un empire fracturé. Cette série offre de l'action brutale et des thèmes sombres, suivant un groupe disparate de guerriers alors qu'ils combattent des dieux oubliés et les ténèbres envahissantes. C'est un récit captivant qui repousse les limites du courage et de la moralité dans un monde sombre et impitoyable. Les fans trouveront une approche fraîche et intransigeante du genre fantasy, pleine de personnages complexes et d'enjeux élevés.

The Dark Defiles
The Cold Commands
Das kalte Schwert
The Steel Remains

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  1. The Steel Remains

    • 352pages
    • 13 heures de lecture

    Ringil, the hero of the bloody slaughter at Gallows Gap is a legend to all who don't know him and a twisted degenerate to those that do. A veteren of the wars against the lizards he makes a living from telling credulous travellers of his exploits. Until one day he is pulled away from his life and into the depths of the Empire's slave trade. Where he will discover a secret infinitely more frightening than the trade in lives. Archeth - pragmatist, cynic and engineer, the last of her race - is called from her work at the whim of the most powerful man in the Empire and sent to its farthest reaches to investigate a demonic incursion against the Empire's borders. Egar Dragonbane, steppe-nomad, one-time fighter for the Empire finds himself entangled in a small-town battle between common sense and religious fervour. But out in the wider world there is something on the move far more alien than any of his tribe's petty gods. Anti-social, anti-heroic, and decidedly irritated, all three of them are about to be sent unwillingly forth into a vicious, vigorous and thoroughly unsuspecting fantasy world. Called upon by an Empire that owes them everything and gave them nothing. Richard Morgan brings his trademark visceral writing style, turbo-driven plotting and thought provoking characterisation to the fantasy genre and produces a landmark work with his first foray.

    The Steel Remains1
    3,7

  2. Das kalte Schwert

    Ringil Eskiath ist auf der Flucht - auf der Flucht vor seiner Vergangenheit, seiner Familie und vor sich selbst. Yhelteth, die Hauptstadt des Imperiums, scheint zunächst ein sicherer Hafen für den raubeinigen Krieger zu sein, doch dann werden die Grenzen des Reiches von einem Feind bedroht, der älter und schrecklicher ist als alles, was Yhelteth jemals gesehen hat. Als die Stadt in Chaos und Schrecken zu versinken droht, ist für Ringil die Stunde gekommen, in der er das tun muss, was er am besten kann: sich mit dem bloßen Schwert in der Hand dem Feind entgegenstellen.

    Das kalte Schwert2
    4,0

  3. The Cold Commands

    • 512pages
    • 18 heures de lecture

    NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Kirkus Reviews • Fantasy Book Critic “Pulpy and hard-core, but with a heart of gold.”—io9 The otherworldly Kiriath once used their advanced technology to save the world from the dark magic of the Aldrain, only to depart as mysteriously as they arrived. Now one of the Kiriath’s uncanny machines has fallen from orbit, with a message that humanity once more faces a grave danger: the Ilwrack Changeling, a boy raised to manhood in the ghostly realm of the Gray Places. Wrapped in sorcerous slumber on an island that drifts between this world and the Gray Places, the Ilwrack Changeling is stirring. When he wakes, the Aldrain will rally to him and return in force. But with the Kiriath long gone, humankind’s fate now depends on warrior Ringil Eskiath and his few, trusted allies. Undertaking a perilous journey to strike first against the Ilwrack Changeling, each of them seeks to outrun a haunted past and find redemption in the future. But redemption won’t come cheap. Nor, for that matter, will survival.

    The Cold Commands2
    3,9

  4. The Dark Defiles

    • 549pages
    • 20 heures de lecture

    Compared to Michael Moorcock and Joe Abercrombie alike, Richard Morgan's fast moving and brutal science fantasy reaches its final volume as Ringil comes to his final reckoning and sees the world tipping into another war with the dragon folk. And, most terrifying of all, the prophecy of a dark lord come to rule may be coming true very close to home... THE DARK DEFILES is a supremely fast moving 240,000 word epic. A massive yet tight story that both shines a light on some mysteries from earlier volumes and reveals deeper mysteries yet. We encounter the artifacts of an ancient race, learn the true story of the ghostly Dwenda and follow three old friends as they face their greatest test yet.

    The Dark Defiles3
    4,0