Title: Tempus
Description: The immortalized ancient warrior Tempus comes to Thieves' World and creates the Sacred Band of Stepsons, consummate ancient cavalry fighters.  This book contains the pivotal stories from the best-selling Thieves' World series, and more:  seen through the eyes of Tempus's right-side partner, Stealth (called Nikodemos), Tempus is more than a novelized collection -- it offers insights into character and glimpses of life in the misty isles of Bandara, where Niko is when he relates these stories, and where he was trained in his msytery of Maat.

Tempus is an important book for anyone reading the Beyond Sanctuary series, or the Sacred Band of Stepsons series, or the 2010  Janet Morris and Chris Morris epic, The Sacred Band:  all of these revolve around characters whose early development is chronicled in "Tempus."
Subjects: Tempus, called the Riddler; Stealth, called Nikodemos; The Sacerd Band; The Sacred Band of Stepsons; Thieves' World; Beyond Sanctuary; historical fantasy; ancient warfare novel; art of war; mythic novel; gods and sorcery; love in war; ancient adventure., Fantasy fiction
Places: The misty isles of Bandara; Nisibis; Mygdonia; Thieves' World; Sanctuary, Meridian, archipelago of dreams
People: Tempus, called the Riddler; Niko (Stealth, called NIkodemos); Roxane, Nisibisi witch; Askelon of Meridian; Cime, Free Agent; Critias and Straton, Sacred Band pair; The Sacred Band; The Stepsons; the Sacred Band of Stepsons
Time periods: Ancient times; through a dimensional gate, Tempus and Cime can move through time and place; approximately 338 BCE.