At this time she met both Marion Zimmer Bradley (author of The Mists of Avalon, and. In the 1980s she took a job programming computers for a major airline and as a consequence moved to Oklahoma, where she continued to write. About this time she discovered science fiction conventions and the Society for Creative Anachronism, and began attending functions of both, more often in costume than not.She had always written from her early teens, and developed this hobby by writing fan-fiction for various amateur magazines. This, she soon learned, along with a paper hat and a nametag will qualify you to ask “would you like fries with that?” at a variety of fast-food locations.After spending time in jobs ranging from artist’s model to lab technician at the Mosquito Genetics Project to short-order cook, she took training and became a computer programmer. She graduated from Purdue University in 1972 with a Bachelor of Science in Biology. It is hoped that there is no connection between the two events.She was raised mostly in the northwestern corner of Indiana, attending grade school and high school in Highland Indiana. The very next day, the Korean War was declared. MERCEDES R LACKEYMercedes Lackey was born in Chicago Illinois on June 24, 1950. It is the story of the end of one world and the beginning of the next.Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. It is a time of dire prophecy, of battle and bloodshed, of great magics unlike any the Elvenkind have seen before. The Dragon Prophecy, set thousands of years before that story, illuminates a time when long-lived Elves rule the Fortunate Lands. Civilization shimmered with magic while in the nooks and crannies of the world, dragons and unicorns hid from people who believed them to be nothing more than legends. Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory’s first collaboration, the Obsidian Mountain trilogy, introduced readers to a brilliant, continent-spanning fantasy world of high adventure and epic battle. With Runacar at the helm, they just might manage it. For centuries they have been trying to reclaim their lands from Elven invaders. In a twist he could never have imagined, the Elven War-Prince finds himself leading a new army into battle-a force of centaurs, merfolk, gryphons, minotaurs, and talking bears who can perform magic. Betrayed by his brother, trapped in a prophecy he does not understand, Runacar flees the battlefield. Runacarendalur Caerthalien has been a master of battle for hundreds of years, but he found himself on the wrong side-the losing side-in the last war. FROM THE AUTHORS OF NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERS WHEN DARKNESS FALLS AND THE PHOENIX TRANSFORMED, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER TO LIGHT A CANDLE
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