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The Punishment of the Gods

  By Jake Yaniak

  Copyright 2013 Jake Yaniak

  All Rights Reserved

  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, events, and locations are fictitious or are used fictitiously. Any resemblances to actual events or persons, living or dead, are entirely coincidental.

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  Dedicated to my beloved wife Sarah for her unfailing love and companionship, my parents for instilling in me a love for the fantastic, and to my brother and sisters, for their constant support, friendship and conversation.

  Table of Contents

  Introduction

  Book I: The Legacy of Galvahir

  Chapter I: The Troubled Son of Biron

  Chapter II: Mityai's Testimony

  Chapter III: Beautiful Peiraso

  Chapter IV: The Goblins of Mount Coronis

  Chapter V: The Usurper of Peiraso

  Chapter VI: The Folly of Cheft Faros

  Chapter VII: The Conjurers' Duel

  Chapter VIII: The Exile of the Galvahirne

  Book II: The Fell Wolf

  Chapter I: Amlaman, Ramlos and the Kings

  Chapter II: The Altar of Agonistes

  Chapter III: The Children of Vulcan

  Chapter IV: The Forest of Heyan

  Chapter V: The Doctrine of Lord Havoc

  Chapter VI: Leonara

  Chapter VII: History Revealed

  Chapter VIII: Power and Desire

  Chapter IX: Legion's Head

  Book III: The Vestron Monster

  Chapter I: The Return of the Merkata Clan

  Chapter II: Natham

  Chapter III: The Wrath of the Monster

  Chapter IV: Envy to Madness

  Chapter V: The Other Outcasts

  Chapter VI: In Marin Quendom

  Chapter VII: Dwarves in the Marches

  Chapter VIII: Into the West

  Book IV: The Seige of Dadron

  Chapter I: Paley

  Chapter II: Evna

  Chapter III: The Remnant of Galva

  Chapter IV: The Monster Rages In Falsis

  Chapter V: Return to Noras

  Chapter VI: The Hidden People

  Chapter VII: The Prophet

  Chapter VIII: Light and Shadow

  Chapter IX: Dadron Besieged

  Chapter X: The Breaking of the Siege

  Chapter XI: Facing the Monster

  Chapter XII: The Siege Ends

  Chapter XIII: Natham

  Book V: The Siren's Song

  Chapter I: The Elves Awaken

  Chapter II: Victory

  Chapter III: The State of Weldera

  Chapter IV: Coronan Revisited

  Chapter V: The Stage is Set

  Chapter VI: The River Meretris

  Chapter VII: The Hidden War on Sten Agoni

  Chapter VIII: Fell Wolf

  Chapter IX: The Punishment of the Gods

  Chapter X: What Came to Pass

  About The Author

  Introduction

  In my account of what has lately been called the Welderan War, I have found it necessary to consider the conflict, not merely as it occurred, but by tracing the more important persons back to their roots. Only in this way have I been able to make the chaotic events of recent times understandable. My reader should not be surprised, then, to find that the first three books of this treatise seem, at first glance, alien one to another, and wholly separated. But when at last these three threads are bound together, as they are in the fourth and fifth books, then at last the whole tapestry will appear comprehensible where it might otherwise have seemed to be without sense or order.

  Book I:

  The Legacy of Galvahir