The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
A High Fantasy, Fiction, Romance book. I thought of you with your hair silver as snow all through that cold, slow journey from Sirle....
Sybel, the beautiful great-granddaughter of the wizard Heald, has grown up on Eld Mountain with only the fantastic beasts summoned there by wizardry as companions. She cares nothing for humans until, when she is 16, a baby is brought for her to raise, a baby who awakens emotions that she has never known before. But the baby is Tamlorn, the only son of King Drede, and, inevitably, Sybel becomes entangled in the human world of love, war and revenge - and only her beasts can save her from the ultimate destruction...
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- Pages: 208 pages
- ISBN: 9781473212039 / 1473212030
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The man was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind, and he died of what he saw there Patricia A. McKillip, The Forgotten Beasts of Eld // I thought of you with your hair silver as snow all through that cold, slow journey from Sirle. I felt you troubled deep within me, and there was no other place in the world I would rather have been than in the cold night riding to you. When you opened your gates to me, I was home. Patricia A. McKillip, The Forgotten Beasts of Eld // You can weave your life so long -- only so long, and then a thing in the world out of your control will tug at one vital thread and leave you patternless and subdued. Patricia A. McKillip, The Forgotten Beasts of Eld //
A remarkably non-epic book for a tale of wizards, a kingdom sliding into civil war, and talking beasts (incl. a dragon). Not epic, that is, in the usual sense. To be sure, it has all the elements, but they're beside the point. The point instead is a young, powerful woman wizard who can't escape the expectations of power; she wants to... It's been a long time since I read this book, but I still remember it well & fondly for it's beautiful writing. There's something of Tolkien's epic story telling, but it is warmer, as is the whole story. At first distant, but it sucked me in until I really cared & understood the characters. Like LeGuin's early EarthSea trilogy, she... Enter a land where wise old boars speak, as well as falcons, lions and cats. A land filled with sorcery, beauty and evil . . .Known as the ice white lady, Sybil was raised to live to care only for the mythical beasts under her control - powerful, beautiful and wise, and feared by man - she knows none of the ways of men and prefers to...
