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In The Ancient, Bransen Garibond searches for his long‑lost father and is drawn into a perilous journey across the Gulf of Corona to the wild lands of Vanguard. There he is conscripted into a desperate war against the savage Samhaists, led by the powerful Ancient Badden. On a quiet Alpinadoran lake, just below Badden’s icy magical castle, several societies are unaware of the looming threat. Bransen emerges as the crucial link between the conflicts, and his failure would result in the lake’s destruction and the fall of northern Honce under the Samhaists’ ruthless rule. The novel is the first volume of Salvatore’s Saga of the First King, a four‑book series set in the same world as the DemonWars saga.
First publish date: 2008
Genre: Fantasy/Epic Fantasy
Authors: R. A. Salvatore
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