The Tyranny of the Night

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Plot

Else Tage is a Sha-Lug company commander. Sha-Lug are slave-warriors who fight in the name of Al-Prama. They are almost out of the Holy Lands after plundering the Andesqueluz Mountains for mummies. They were instructed to do so by Gordimer the Lion, greatest of the Sha-Lug, and the current leader of Dreanger. He is basically a puppet for the court wizard: er-Rashal al-Dhulquarnen A.K.A. the Rascal. On their way back the Sha-Lug severely wound an Instrumentality using their falcons (cannons) using silver shot.

Publication Information

First Edition:

  • June 2005
  • Tor Books (May 26, 2005), Hardcover, 432 pages
  • ISBN 0-765-30684-0 / 978-0-765-30684-5

Mass Market Edition:

  • Novemember 2006
  • Tor Fantasy (2006), Paperback, 528 pages
  • Cover Art by Raymond Swanland
  • ISBN 0-765-34596-X / 978-0-765-34596-7

Characters (in order of appearance)

Major

  • Else Tage

Minor

  • Shagot the Bastard
  • Gordimer the Lion

Incidental

Skogafjord, Andoray

  • Old Trygg
  • Singer Brigga
  • Pulla the Priest
  • Erief Erealsson
  • Borbjorg
  • Vidgis
  • Herva

Sha-lug

  • Bone - Else's leiutenant at Esther's Wood
  • al-Azer er-Selim - Else's Master of Ghosts at Esther Wood
  • Mohkam
  • Akir
  • Heged
  • Agban
  • Norts

Geography

While no map is provided the geography may be the same of ours with an altered history placed upon it. If so then many of the places may correspond to ours but with different names.

  • Andoray
    • Skogafjord - TTOTN opens here. Corresponds to Norway in the time of the Vikings prior to Christianity. Note that the events here in the book occur approximately 200 years prior to the rest of the story.
    • Snaefells
  • Friesland - Denmark?
  • Holy Lands
    • Esther's Wood
  • Arnhand
  • The Rhûn
  • Dreanger - Egypt
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