Overview
FIRST EDITION. Hardcover in DJ in Good Condition. Ex-Library
Long ago, powerful wizards sundered a world into four realms—sky, stone, fire, and sea—and then vanished. Their descendants in the magical arts were confined to their own realms and over time gradually forgot the others. Now the presence of the four separate realms is known only to those few who have survived the horrors of the Labyrinth and traversed the central Death Gate, pathway to all of their severed worlds.
In Fire Sea, Haplo the Patryn, who has been commanded to journey to each of the four worlds through the strangely transforming Death Gate, rides a tide of fiery magma into Abarrach, Realm of Stone. Haplo shares his rune-guarded vessel with the Sartan named Alfred, who until know was thought to be the last living member of his race. Until now—for soon after discovering the deserted, bloodied city of Safe Harbor, Haplo and Alfred—by nature enemies and by necessity comrades—come face-to-face with a lost tribe of Sartan practicing their most forbidden magic.
Marshaled by the Sartan’s most powerful magicians, armies are moving in the night as Abarrach is swept up in civil war. The realm’s rulers search desperately for the Death Gate and anyone who has knowledge of it. For the princes and sorcerers of Abarrach are driven by the horrifying knowledge that doom is gradually overcoming their world of catacombs and lava, a doom spelled out in a mystical, inscrutable prophecy that foretells very different fates for the living…and the dead.