num_pages: 654
description: From the bestselling author of Tailchaser's Song comes the first volume in an epic fantasy trilogy with all the magic, wonder, and magnificence of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. The Dragonbone Chair is the story of Simon, a young apprentice, whose dreams of great deeds and heroic wars come all too shockingly true when his world is torn apart by a terrifying civil war -- a war fueled by ancient hatreds, immortal enemies, and the dark powers of sorcery.In Osten Ard, a land ruled by an elvish like race known as the Sithi, the human High King is dying. And with his death, a long-dormant evil is unleashed on the land as the undead Sithi ruler, the Storm King, seeks to regain his lost realm thought a pact with one of human royal blood.Only a small, scattered group, the League of the Scroll, recognizes the true danger faced by Osten Ard, only they hold the knowledge of times past, of threats fulfilled, and of a riddle of swords, which holds out the one small hope of salvation. And to Simon -- unknowingly apprenticed to a member of this League, and unwittingly touched by magic both good and ill -- will go the task of spearheading the search for the solution of this riddle of long-lost swords of power, a quest that will see him fleeing and facing enemies straight out of a legend-maker's worst nightmare!
language: English
title: The Dragonbone Chair
titlecomplete: The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #1)
genres: Fiction, Adventure, Young Adult, High Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adult, Epic, Fantasy, Dragons
ratings_count: 69660
series: Osten Ard Saga, Vzpomínka, Žal a Trn, Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn
publisher: DAW Hardcover