Thraxas and the Sorcerers

THRAXAS AND THE SORCERERS

Thraxas arrives back from the Elvish Isles rather too quickly for his liking. Turai is still gripped by a fierce winter. The only thing to do is drink beer in front of a roaring fire in the Avenging Axe. To his annoyance, the city authorities won't let him rest. Every Sorcerer in the Human lands is heading for Turai, to elect a new leader. The Turanian government is desperate for a Turanian sorcerer to be chosen as head of the guild. This will require cheating, bribery and corruption on a massive scale. Naturally, they turn to Thraxas. Unfortunately, while Thraxas is embarking on his own campaign of cheating, bribery and corruption, one of the foreign sorcerers is murdered and the Turanian candidate for head of the guild becomes the prime suspect. Thraxas has to clear her name, but the investigation proves difficult. The sorcerers' meeting is one of the most riotously drunken affairs ever seen in Turai, and with so much beer around, Thraxas has a lot of distractions. Meanwhile Makri finds her own unmatched fighting skills crumbling in the face of an excess of illegal substances, and when she's given the task of looking after the exotic Princess Direeva she seems likely to cause another diplomatic scandal, and once more outrage all decent citizens of Turai.