Description Baras they named him, the Dragon who betrayed all.
He lay impotent under a spell woven eons before by the magical crown of the monarchy of Carandir.
In his days of power, he could have swept aside the enchanted threads when he commanded armies of sorcerers named the Barasha, the Servants of Baras, along with discontented dragons and demons, to vie for control of the world.
Subdued, he dreamed of what might have been.
The dreams filled him with a hatred of all things that walked alive beneath the sun, for he would never know such again.
At the same time, he was consumed with rage for all things that died and so departed this world, for that escape was not his to have.
Most of all, they filled him with a seething hunger for vengeance against Carandir and all its people.
Endlessly the dreams wove, until a voice came to him; one he should have not heard, for the wizards had told them they were all destroyed.
From beyond the fog, a servant called, Master.
The time has come.
As the Barasha secretly plot to steal the crown and release their master who will spread a reign of terror, rival baronies, unaware of a menace that would consume them all, threaten civil war.
Among those drawn into these webs are twin brothers Prince Ryckair and Prince Craya, one of whom is heir to the crown, though which will not be known until the brothers reach the age of 20, and Mirjel, daughter of a powerful baron who is bound to marry the brother who becomes king.
One is cast into the wilderness.
One protects the people from the Barasha.
One is seduced by the sorcerers.
This gender balanced, epic mythical fantasy takes place in a world where women and men share the same power and opportunities.
There are battles, political intrigues, cultures, languages, forgotten legends, lost lands.
music and fantastic creatures.
It is the first book in the Carandir Saga.
Cape Split Press Dragons unremembered: volume i of the carandir saga, paperback/david a. wimsett
