Book description
This second volume picks up the ongoing story in a tunnel leading out
of enchanted mountain realm of Eotunlandt. Fighting their way through
subterranean dangers, Nibulus and his diminished retinue of 'questers'
finally reach the open again, only to discover that their rivals the
Thieves have mysteriously disappeared. Meanwhile, Gapp and a sinisterly
altered Methuselech continue towards Wrythe, the last settlement. They
find the population strangely degenerated, under the influence of a
local leader, in fact the evil being Scathur who has been hiding there
for five hundred years, awaiting his moment of vengeance. Scathur
recognises that inside Methuselech is the outcast soul of a rival
necromancer, Mauglad, so imprisons them both till they manage to flee
for their lives. The rest of the original questers also turn up for a
scary sojourn in Wrythe, before heading on to Melhus island with
Scathur's deathly henchmen in pursuit. During strange dreams, the
wanderer Bolldhe learns he must use a strange sword he has found to kill
the evil demigod Drauglir, once and for all. They all venture into
Melhus (the Underworld), contesting with the hosts of the dead sent
against them. There ensues a colossal battle, with thrills and spills
and monumental destruction, before the questers achieve an unexpected
victory -and most of them will return to Nordwas sadder but wiser.
David Bilsborough grew up in Malvern, Worcestershire, and still
lives there when not teaching overseas. His first novel (and first in
this sequence) was The Wanderer's Tale.
