AurianFast-paced, richly imagined, and filled with unforgettable characters, Aurian is a stunning debut from a talented author. To the city of Nexis, where magefolk in their white-walled towers rule uneasily over a restive race of Morals, a young girl comes to learn the magic arts. Aurian, a quicksilver swordswoman, has inherited Earth-magic from her mother and Fire-magic from her father. Unawakened within her lie far greater powers, coveted by the Archmage Miathan, who intends to possess her. But Aurian bravely flouts the Mages’ Code and takes a mortal lover. Maddened by rage and jealousy, the corrupt Archmage schemes to destroy her, unleashing cataclysmic forces from a lost age. Aurian is the only Mage strong enough to oppose Miathan, but to do so she must take up forbidden weapons of long-lost magic, at grave peril of her own destruction . . . or the annihilation of her very world. “Rich, colorful and infinitely enchanting . . . Will give enormous pleasure to fantasy readers.”—David Gemmell |
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User Review - KAzevedo - LibraryThingThis first book of a quartet is a plot driven, racing adventure story, with little in the way of character development. There is some growth in the title character of Aurian, a Mage and warrior, as ... Read full review
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User Review - librarycatnip - LibraryThingWow. I had completely forgotten about this book, I must have read it in middle school! Read full review
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| Title | Aurian Volume 1 of Artefacts of Power |
| Author | Maggie Furey |
| Publisher | Random House Worlds, 1994 |
| ISBN | 0553565257, 9780553565256 |
| Length | 608 pages |
| Subjects | › › Fiction / Fantasy / Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantasy / Dragons & Mythical Creatures Fiction / Fantasy / Romance |
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