The world of Ea is an ancient world settled in eons past by the Star People. However, their ancestors floundered, in their purpose to create a great stellar civilisation on the new planet: they fell into moral decay. Now a champion has been born who will lead them back to greatness, by means of a spiritual -- and adventurous -- quest for Ea's Grail: the Lightstone. His name is Valashu Elahad, and he is destined to become King. Blessed (or cursed?) with an empathy for all living things, he...

Sparhawk, Pandion Knight and Queen's Champion returns from a long spell of exile to find his native land overrun with evil, intrigue and his young queen grievously ill. Ehlana lies magically entombed within a block of crystal, doomed to die unless a cure can be found within the year

Mit Die magische Insel schließt Stan Nicholls seine atemberaubende Trilogie um die Gefährten des magischen Bundes ab. Und stellt – nach seinem Bestseller Die Orks – damit endgültig unter Beweis, dass er seinen Platz in der Riege der Stars der modernen Fantasy mehr als verdient: Wie Robert Jordan oder George R. R. Martin gelingt es ihm, auf Tolkiens Spuren ein Millionenpublikum in seinen Bann zu schlagen.

They are called the Dreamers. They look like sleeping children. They are, in fact, Gods. There are eight elder Gods, four awake, four asleep, by turns. When they sleep, they sleep for eons. The only time the Gods are vulnerable is when the sleepers awake. Knowing this, the Ruler of the Wasteland, ambitious to become a God by destroying Gods, watches and waits, marshalling troops for war. So it is that the coming of the Dreamers passes unnoticed in the Wasteland. But the world is soon out of...