The Loneliest Magician
(The Dragon Nimbus: Book 3)
Irene Radford
DAW Books, 1996
ISBN:0-88677-709-7 (paperback)
As war rages between the armies of Coronnan and SeLenicca, an equally desperate campaign is
being fought between the Commune, which uses dragon magic, and the coven, which draws its
power from an older and darker source.
Now, with the dragons vanished from Coronnan, driven off by the treachery of Lord Krej, the
Commune has been forbidden to practice its arts. Without their spell-backing, and undermined by
traitors within his own court, king Darville finds himself hard-pressed to maintain order in the
land. And then Senior Magician Jaylor becomes convinced that he has been betrayed by Darville
when the Commune is attacked by troops magically disguised as the king's forces. Fighting for
survival in a suddenly hostile land and hiding I the on sanctuary left to his people, Jaylor knows
the Commune's and the kingdom's only hope is to find the dragons and bring them back to
Coronnan.
Yet this quest is not his to undertake. It falls instead to a powerful but untested magician, the
orphan boy known as Yaakke. Yaakke has been called by the dragons themselves, lured with the
promise that when he finds them he will also discover his t rue identity. But Yaakke has never
been able to gather dragon magic, and with Shayla injured and trapped in a land bereft of earth
magic, he will have to venture into the heart of the enemy's stronghold in search of the means to
set her free....
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