![]() ![]() All this echoes many fantasy ideas without borrowing overmuch from any one, and it never turns derivative. But then Drede makes a fatal mistake, leaving Sybel burning for a revenge that threatens to subvert her capacity for love. Tam, it emerges, is actually Drede’s son, so she returns him to the king. Both Drede and Coren, it turns out, covet her beauty and her power, but Sybel refuses to take sides. Reluctantly she accepts charge of the child and begins to experience the emotions she hitherto has never needed. Coren’s family is locked in an existential struggle with Drede, King of Eldwold, for control of the kingdom to which baby Tamlorn is heir. Her bubble bursts when Coren of Sirle arrives claiming vague kinship and bearing a newborn baby, the son of his slain brother. ![]() She and her forebears magically summoned the creatures, though her heart's desire to call the great white bird Liralen remains unfulfilled. White-haired, black-eyed wizard Sybel lives alone on Eld Mountain with a collection of magical, sentient beasts-the Boar Cyrin, the Lyon Gules, the Falcon Ter, and so on-with whom she can converse telepathically. Reissue of McKillip’s 1974 fantasy tale of lost innocence widely praised, sometimes extravagantly so, it won the 1975 World Fantasy Award. ![]()
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