Yet even as Tiger learns more about his gifts, Del comes face to face with the daughter she left behind so many years before.įans of Roberson’s bestselling series should enjoy this wildest of rides alongside the Sandtiger and Delilah. Now, with the world around them falling victim to a malignant Northern-born magic, Tiger gathers Del and his adult son, Neesha, to end the magic threatening the world-and discovers, along the journey, yet another element of magecraft within himself. He is constantly challenged to death-dances where rules, and oaths, no longer apply. By doing so, he made himself a target of men formerly his colleagues, now sworn enemies. Death-dances are few and far between the goal is simply to win within the confines of “the circle.”īut Tiger is an outcast, a man who attained the highest level of achievement at the training school he attended faster than anyone before him, only to voluntarily break all oaths in order to save Del. Tiger and Del have settled into semi-retirement to raise their daughter, establishing a school for those who wish to become sword-dancers, part of a highly ritualized rite in which specially trained sword-fighters are hired to settle feuds among rich and powerful desert princes.

Sword-Bearer marks a return to the vivid world of Jennifer Roberson’s highly popular Sword-Dancer saga, featuring iconic characters Tiger-the South’s most famous and gifted sword-dancer-and Del, a Northern-born woman and expert sword-singer. In Del, Tiger finds one of the most intriguing challenges he has ever encountered in this mysterious sword dancer from the North as she asks for his help in crossing the punja, the deadliest part of the desert.A return to the vivid fantasy world of the highly popular Sword-Dancer saga, featuring iconic characters Tiger and Del. Del was trained by the greatest of the Northern sword masters and has now headed South to find a younger brother who was stolen five years ago. Tiger won his freedom as a slave after mixing magical with a warrior’s skill becoming a legendary sword dancer. Sword-Dancer is the first book in a series of the same name. This first book introduces Alix, the king’s granddaughter, a half-Homanan half-Cheysuli woman as she seeks to answer an ancient prophecy. Twenty five years later, the remaining Cheysuli became exiles who were hunted. The king turned against them and declared war against them. They had long been allies of the King of Honma until the king’s daughter ran away with a Cheysuli man. The Cheysuli are a race of magical warriors that can shapeshift into animals whenever they like.

Shapechangers is the first book in the Chronicles of Cheysuli series.

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