num_pages: 456
description: One of the most honored authors in the field of fantasy and science fiction, Lois McMaster Bujold transports us once more to a dark and troubled land and embroils us in a desperate struggle to preserve the endangered souls of a realm. Three years have passed since the widowed Dowager Royina Ista found release from the curse of madness that kept her imprisoned in her family's castle of Valenda. Her newfound freedom is costly, bittersweet with memories, regrets, and guilty secrets - for she knows the truth of what brought her land to the brink of destruction. And now the road - escape - beckons... A simple pilgrimage, perhaps. Quite fitting for the Dowager Royina of all Chalion.Yet something else is free, too - something beyond deadly. To the north lies the vital border fortress of Porifors. Memories linger there as well, of wars and invasions and the mighty Golden General of Jokona. And someone, something, watches from across that border - humans, demons, gods.Ista thinks her little party of pilgrims wanders at will. But whose? When Ista's retinue is unexpectedly set upon not long into its travels, a mysterious ally appears - a warrior nobleman who fights like a berserker. The temporary safety of her enigmatic champion's castle cannot ease Ista's mounting dread, however, when she finds his dark secrets are entangled with hers in a net of the gods' own weaving.In her dreams the threads are already drawing her to unforeseen chances, fateful meetings, fearsome choices. What the inscrutable gods commanded of her in the past brought her land to the brink of devastation. Now, once again, they have chosen Ista as their instrument. And again, for good or for ill, she must comply.
language: English
title: Paladin of Souls
titlecomplete: Paladin of Souls (World of the Five Gods, #2)
characters: Arhys dy Lutez, Ista dy Chalion, Illvin dy Arbanos, Liss (paladin of Souls), Cattilara dy Lutez, Chivar dy Cabon, Foix dy Gura, Ferda dy Gura
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Magic, Audiobook, Epic Fantasy, Romance, Fantasy, Hugo Awards, High Fantasy
ratings_count: 24557
series: World of the Five Gods (Publication), World of the Five Gods (Chronological)
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Nebula Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Fantasy Novel, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Mythopoeic Fantasy Award
category: Adult Literature
publisher: Eos (HarperCollins)