Monday, May 7, 2012

Legends of Haergill and Conniker's Tale

What is in the fourth book?

Admittedly you could leave the Last Elf Trilogy right with the last page of The Lord of Lightning and feel as though you've reached the conclusions necessary for closure. I designed the trilogy that way.



However.


There are other stories, which I have written, or am in the process of writing, that add to the world of Wealdland, that weren't absolutely essential to the overall plot of the acquiring and use of the Heaven's Key. These stories would just have made the trilogy that much longer, and I felt as though they would be better served as a collection added to the trilogy as an Apocrypha.

So, what's in the Fourth book of the Wealdland Stories?



Well, from the title, you can make a pretty educated guess. There is a novella about Haergill, when he flees Ethgeow, the capitol of the Northern Kingdom of Man, to save the life of his wife Halldora, and his daughter, Frea.


And then there is a strange and wonderful story of Conniker, the white wolf, and what happened to him during the seven days he went missing in The Last Elf of Lanis. I guarantee this story will astound, amaze, and entertain you.


Also, there are four stories set in Lanis Rhyl Landemiriam, hundreds of years before the attack by the garond army. One involves Iounelle as a child and how she got the lifename Treelaughter, and another, the story of how she snuck into Bawn Hae, the tower forbidden to unmarried elven females.


There is a story of Weylund and his journey out into the Farther Lands.


There is the story of Hanarry and Myanne, and Hetwing's challenge for the crown of Reia against her uncle Eoric.


There are two stories that answer questions about Yulenth.


There is the Ballad of Sehen, and several other elven poem/songs, most notably, the heroic poem/song Veranelle dae Galehthaire, the story of the great, last battle of Iounelle's parents.


And lastly there are two stories that answer the many questions I have been asked, about the fate of little Mót. One involves the writing on the cliff face of the Red Mountains. But, what happens with Mót will shock and tantalize you.


More than half of this collection is already written. I hope to have the book ready for release on or soon after August 1, 2012.


Later in the year, probably around Christmas, you will get a present in your stocking of the first of the elven stories about Berand, the forger of the Mattear Gram and the Moon Sword that Iounelle carries. 


That book will be entitled Berand the Fool. I am very excited about the Berand Trilogy as it will be very strange and adventurous. 




cheers,


Kurt