AURIAN
Maggie Furey
Bantam Spectra Books, 1994
ISBN:0-553-56525-7 (paperback)
To the city of Nexis, where Magefolk in their white-walled towers rule uneasily over a race of
Mortals, a young girls comes to learn the magic arts. Aurian, a quicksilver swordswoman, has
inherited Earth-magic from her mother and Fire-magic from her father. Unawakened within her
lie far greater powers, coveted by the Archmage Miathan, who intends to possess her. But
Aurian bravely flouts the Mages' Code and takes a mortal lover.
Maddened by rage and jealousy, the corrupt Archmage schemes to destroy her, unleashing
cataclysmic forces from a lost age. Aurian is the only Mage strong enough to oppose Miathan,
but to do so she must take up forbidden weapons of long-lost magic, at grave peril of her own
destruction...or the annihilation of her very world.
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