
Five hundred years before The Priory of the Orange Tree, as the fire-breathing wyrms rise, four women in different corners of the world face the coming Grief of Ages.
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Eragon, a farm boy in the remote land of Alagaësia, finds a polished blue stone in the mountains that hatches into a dragon, and finds himself heir to the Dragon Riders, the order destroyed by the tyrant king Galbatorix.

In the islands of Dara, held together by a tyrant emperor, Kuni Garu, a charming idler turned bandit, and Mata Zyndu, the giant last son of a deposed noble clan, are drawn into the rebellion that follows his death.

A hobbit inherits a ring of absolute power and must carry it across a continent to destroy it in the fires where it was made.

On the planet Pern, threatened every two hundred years by Thread falling from the sky, the dragonrider F'lar finds Lessa, the last of her noble line, hiding as a drudge, and brings her to bond with a new queen dragon.

As summer ends in the Seven Kingdoms, the noble houses scheme for the Iron Throne while an exiled princess gathers dragons and something ancient stirs beyond the Wall.

In a city that overthrew its dragonriding aristocracy, Annie, a peasant girl, and Lee, an orphan of the old regime, have risen through the new dragonrider programme, and survivors of the old nobility come back with dragons of their own.

Geralt of Rivia, a witcher who hunts monsters for pay, rests at a temple of the goddess Melitele after a hard fight and remembers the jobs that brought him there.

A soldier stripped of his rank and a scholar desperate to save her people bond over ancient magical armour as war engulfs a storm-ravaged world.

In the holy city of Tova, as the winter solstice nears, Naranpa, a sun priest of humble birth, faces enemies within her own order, while the ship captain Xiala carries Serapio, a blind young man with a terrible purpose, across the sea towards the city.

A six-year-old royal bastard left at Buckkeep Castle is raised in the stables and secretly trained by the king's assassin while he discovers two forbidden magics, the Skill and the Wit.

A former emperor imprisoned for sixteen years is freed into a world at war, where his forbidden colour magic is the only hope.

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