A towering epic of fantasy, The Pearl, is launched in The Ring of Five Dragons.
Filled with action, color, and the myriad details of another world, The
Pearl is the first great fantasy series of the new millennium, set to
rival Robert Jordan, David Eddings, George R. R. Martin, Terry Brooks,
and Terry Goodkind in popular appeal.
This astonishing first
volume opens as the Kundalan people have suffered for a century under
the viciously oppressive, technologically-superior V'ornn invaders. In
the resulting crisis of faith – why hasn't their goddess Miina saved
them? – Kundalan religion has fallen under the control of evil forces
from within who forbid the teaching of traditional sorcery, pretending
to have no magic of their own. The V'ornn's mysterious leaders, the
Gyrgon, know better, and search for the lost Ring of Five Dragons, the
key to the door of the fabled Kundalan Storehouse, and perhaps to
Kundalan sorcery as well.
But misused, the Ring is the trigger
of seemingly inexorable annihilation for V'ornn and Kundalan alike. Now
from among the oppressed must arise the hero of prophecy, the Dar
Sala-at, who alone can wield the sorcerous power to save the world.
Thus
begins a huge epic rooted in the conflict between spiritual and
technological cultures. The twisting plot raises difficult and
provocative moral questions in the course of a constantly surprising,
sometimes shocking, fantastic adventure that will transport fantasy
readers to new heights of enthusiasm, and make them ask for more.
