VALITTUJEN LIITTO
VALITUT KOKOONTUVAT.
HE SAAVAT TIETÄÄ SALAISUUDEN.
Kotkankiven vuorilinnoituksen saavuttaminen on helppo osuus. Valkamien valtiopäivien vakuuttaminen heidän hankkeestaan on kokonaan toinen asia. Ulkopuolella vihollinen kokoaa armeijaansa, mutta myös sisällä heidän täytyy neuvotella niiden kanssa, joiden piti olla liittolaisia.
Heidän tehtävänsä on saattaa yhteen aikansa suuret nimet, ne harvat valitut, joille Salaisuuden voi luottaa. He ajattelevat Kadonutta Perillistä, Viimeistä Ritaria, Kouluttajamestaria, Merirosvokapteenia, Hopeamaan komentajaa sekä valtiopäivämiestä. Mutta myös muukalainen ilmestyy kutsumatta: villilintuliitäjä kaukaa.
Kotona ylämailla, vanhat ystävykset ottavat kohtalon omiin käsiinsä, kun jotakin, minkä piti olla mahdotonta, tapahtuu.
Jotta Salaantulo voidaan aloittaa, vanhat kaunat on pantava sivuun. Kun Valittujen Liitto on sinetöity, paluuta ei ole. Sota Jooninmaasta syttyy.
Kuka ansaitsee tietää Salaisuuden?
Short synopsis
They enter Eaglestone Bastion, an extinct volcano, but the council wants to hand them and over with the Journal to drive the enemy away, but they do a trick, making their handing over futile; they end up as prisoners.
As the paration assembles, they are granted an audience, and as a result, they give them access to wind riders, with whom they send messages across Yanakhon.
As a pirate captain responds the first letter, they figure out the Arkman's trail and sail across the Blue Sea, finding him alive stranded on a skerry, confirming the tale of the Lost Heir.
Merkhat and the villagers flee the prison convoy, returning to their home village and take it over. The enemy responds, but Merkhat, having practiced for long, goes through rogue initiation, learning the Secret, and overpowers his captors, and they re-take their village. Elyara joins them with her rogues, and they hold their village through the winter.
Back in the Eaglestone Bastion, they spend the winter tight, and upon spring, more folks appear: the Schoolmaster of Harachim School Guild, the grandmaster of Shalon, a captain from the old Selerian world - and a mysterious wildbird glider appearing uninvited.
They form the Covenant of the Chosen, and are initiated to the Secret. The enemy gathers its army, but just as they prepare to fight, the bastion's council makes a deal with the enemy to hand them over. They fight and flee, sailing to the mountains and witness the bastion troops forced to fight the enemy, chasing the poorly-equipped slave army consisting mostly of Yonians back to Port Eagle.
The pirates had stolen a load of bonshac rum barrels from the bastion. Sagiron, not willing to betray his words, comes up with a plan: they infiltrate into the besieged town amongst the barrel load an a ship left adrift, and the barrels are smuggled into the garrison, and the slave soldiers drink themselves unfit for combat.
They enter the city, but not all are drunk. They end up in a battle, announcing themselves and their revolutionary idea, and the slave soldiers, their kin, turn sides, and Le-Muel and the crimson foes flee the port with ships. Sagiron meets the bastion army, presenting the newly convinced slave soldier Yonians as his troops. They prepare to travel across Yanakhon to spread word about the revolution.
But naval reinforcements are inbound, gathering their fleet. Sagiron comes up with an even bolder idea, for Le-Muel was after them and the Journal, not the rebels. In the dark and fog, they row to their flagship, the fastest in the Blue Sea, taking it over and sail away, drawing the fleet after them, giving more time for the rebellion.
Chapters
1. Books 5
2. Whitling Paration 15
3. Letters 33
4. Neither Nor 48
5. Questions 60
6. Tracking the Bird 74
7. Wrong Side of the Blade 85
8. Nightmares 94
9. Answers 101
10. Well 113
11. Ghostcreeper’s Home 124
12. Merkhat’s Route 136
13. Best Friend 143
14. New Order 156
15. Arrow in the Night 168
16. Silvon Guard 174
17. Trainer in the Village 189
18. Light of Change 199
19. Old Friend 209
20. Last Knight 218
21. Purple and Silver 229
22. Wildbird Glider 238
23. The Chosen 247
24. Secret-Keeper 256
25. Tenets of Thunderfire 262
26. Kata Cembat 272
27. Fight to Flight 281
28. Shadow Scout 290
29. Flotsam 297
30. Inside Job 307
31. Barrel Girl 314
32. Bonshac Rebellion 322
33. Eaglestone Covenant 337
34. Messengers of Yanakhon 343
35. Visitor 352
36. Blue Reef 364
