The Book

A Dark Opening in the Wall ~ Pebbles Cast Long Shadows ~ The Sharp End of the Sword ~ A Sweeping Gesture ~ The Gate Opens on Friends and Enemies ~ Brult is “Cvloos” ~ “You Will Not be King” ~ Words on the Wind ~ First Lesson ~ Second and Third Thoughts ~ Sila-Alsi “Hastens Learning” ~ New Enemies ~ Klek-Tornu Teaches Brult...to Think ~ The Fellowship of the Kitchen ~ Tides Rule Here ~ Books of Law ~ The Mute King ~ Where Will it All End? ~ Learning About “Art” ~ Folimantar’s Fall ~ The Truest World ~ Povint*hool ~ Soil and Swords ~ Spying on the Spy ~ Charnou’s List ~ Ships With No Sails ~ Barbarian’s Progress ~ Resignation and Refusal ~ Jalgar Breaks Away ~ Who is the Papermaker? ~ A Message from the White Cave? ~ Aloyen’s Warning ~ Empty Spaces ~ Escape Into Danger ~ A Thief is Born ~ A Captive Again ~ Be Careful What You Say ~ Prebens Save a Life ~ Melcínlasintl ~ “You Will Leave at Dawn” ~ Forces of Nature ~ Burnt Muscle ~ A Ride Down the Mountain ~ Tnadromau ~ Thunder and Rainbow ~ “We Must Leave” ~ “She Would Not Leave” ~ Healing at a Cost ~ Straightforward and Reliable ~ A Disastrous Victory ~ The Prowlers Tell ~ The Woisinii Stand Tall ~ Woanë’s Grave ~ Poison and Paralysis

Book II: Welcome all Winds

Exiles Outside the Gate ~ “The King is Speaking” ~ Talsi Earns a Hot Shower ~ “Seek the Scent of Herbs” ~ Two Servants ~ A Cabinet With Many Doors ~ Darkwarks ~ A Book of Tongues ~ “He Brings Me Safe” ~ Learning to Swim ~ “It is Worse Than I Feared” ~ The Wicker Raft ~ A Far Shore ~ City On the Water ~ A Foot on Land ~ The Queen’s Orders ~ A Ceremonious Farewell ~ Skark Faces Death ~ Svilbis Faces Death ~ They All Face Death ~ A New Trail ~ Sloffy and Brobble ~ The Days Will Shorten ~ War? ~ Making Amends, Again ~ Building a City in a Season ~ The Preben Caravan ~ Melcín as Poet ~ Teaching Boys, Learning from a Woman ~ Preben Rules ~ Until next... ~ Lady Olya Helps and Warns ~ The Harvest Meeting ~ An Agreement Dies in Fire ~ Stettlehoe the Uninvited ~ A Fountain of Tears

Book III: Your Kingdom Will Fall

The King Rises Early ~ Terms ~ Riot and Invasion ~ To the Rescue ~ Talsi the Advisor? ~ War Council ~ Rockslide ~ Voices of Xagadralu ~ The Women ~ The Scrollwave ~ Nails ~ Water from a Glass ~ A Bar of Gold ~ Roylant’s New “Family” ~ The Other Side of the Gate ~ A Last Look ~ New-Mother Torture ~ Empty Nets ~ The Second Promise ~ The Invincible Six ~ Green House, Green Man ~ Slomiamls, Oomals, and More ~ Armor ~ A Jest and a Holy Place ~ Paer Writes the Poem in Full ~ Jalgar Laughs—at Last ~ Leadership and Love ~ WHY? ~ Relieved ~ A Sufficient Agreement ~ The Learned Klek-Tornu ~ Overboard ~ Voices of the Dead, Choices of the Living ~ The Gentle Hand of Murder ~ A Bridge Through the Air ~ Mossok and Shvellek ~ Prebotswal ~ “About to go Wrong”

Book IV: A Great Tree Will Rise

An Old Leaf Decays ~ The River Begins to Flow Forever ~ Windows on the Sun ~ Kwebls Touch the Tangled Isle ~ Lanterns Over the Water ~ Swift Sails ~ The Power of Water ~ The Power of Food ~ The One Tree ~ Xhrámdalu ~ No “ifs” or “buts” ~ Jatel ~ Questions ~ Ten Black ~ An Old Foe ~ Mercy and Justice ~ Roylant’s Regiment ~ Thirty Women ~ Empty Towns ~ Blisters ~ “To Pay my Respects” ~ The End of a Dream ~ Dolmeg’s Lost Men ~ Fight—or Work? ~ Letters from Xhrámdalu ~ Perfect Timing ~ The Step is Full ~ My Father’s Son ~ Can You Count the Stars? ~ Cave, Tombstone and Farewell ~ Great Deeds