The herb gatherer Leesha finds herself on the path of lost knowledge and wisdom in the wake of a more personal set of problems and conflicts, rather than a direct conflict with the corelings. This is the catalyst that drives the events of the novel, and subsequent novels as well.
A devastating attack on his village leads to his desire to change the perilous status quo. Arlen is our titular character, and is in many ways his story. The Warded Man focuses on three major characters, and in a series of inter-cut scenes leaping forward in time, allows us to see how they grow, are tested and forged into the people they are. Brett and the first in his Demon Cycle series. The Warded Man (The Painted Man in the UK) is the debut novel of Peter V. The candle flame holding against the darkness wavers, but whether it bursts into full fulminating flower or is completely extinguished, is in the hands of a new generation of heroes. The rise and growth to maturity of several very different people may be the key to humanity finally taking a stand against its long time and implacable enemy, if prejudices, conflicts and struggles for power both old and new do not eliminate that possibility altogether. Even wards, the magical symbols that can hold the corelings at bay, are not enough, since they are made and mismade by the hands of man. Reduced from a once great civilization to some few communities huddling against the darkness, the slow erosion of humanity from the face of the earth seems inevitable. Every night, demons called corelings rise out of the ground, demons intent on feasting upon the remaining humans.
On a distant world, night is the dark time for the guttering, flickering remnants of human civilization, in more ways than simply the setting of the sun.
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