Résultats pour "David" dans Épique

L'histoire tumultueuse de l'inquisiteur Gideon Ravenor et de son groupe d'acolytes, aussi efficaces que meurtriers, nous transporte dans le lointain et sinistre futur de l'Imperium de l'Humanité. En enquêtant sur le trafic d'une dangereuse substance, ils vont traverser toutes les strates de la société impériale, depuis les bas-fonds jusqu'aux plus hautes sphères, allant de planètes rongées par la pollution jusqu'à une station spatiale isolée où la loi impériale n'a pas cours, en passant par un monstrueux cirque impérial.

Le dieu pervers, Torak, va s'éveiller. Les temps sont venus, l'univers vacille. Horreur ! Le dieu pervers, Torak, va s'éveiller ! Belgarath se hâte : il n'est que temps de retrouver l'Orbe d'Aldur, qui peut sauver les hommes de la colère des dieux. De la brumeuse Arendie à la putride Nyissie, patrie des Hommes-Serpents, Belgarath entraîne Garion sur une route semée d'embûches.

Voici venus les temps où les peuples respirent. Torak est mort, le dieu-dragon, l'Enfant des Ténèbres, et la menace cosmique paraît conjurée. Pourtant la Prophétie des Ténèbres est bien gravée dans les mémoires. Et le vieux Gorim, dans sa grotte, entend gémir et gronder la terre : une pierre maléfique s'est réveillée. Le culte de l'Ours aurait-il encore des adeptes secrets ? Çà et là, on complote, on assassine, on repère les enfants marqués par le destin. Déjà la guerre s'allume dans les États du Sud. Puis, une nuit, la Voix parle à Garion.

Le jour est proche où cessera la Division qui est au cœur de la Création. Bientôt les forces de la Lumière et des Ténèbres se livreront leur ultime combat à l'Endroit-qui-n'est-plus. D'ici peu, la Sibylle procédera au choix qui décidera du sort de tout ce qui est, de tout ce qui fut.

Tout l'univers retient son souffle. Zandramas est en fuite et possède un moyen sûr d'imposer la domination des forces obscures ; encore lui faut-il échapper aux Gardiens du Ponant, régulièrement contrariés par des obstacles imprévus : cette fois, c'est l'empereur de Mallorée qui les fait prisonniers.

La saga de La Mallorée de David Eddings est une série fantasy constituée de cinq volumes : "Les Gardiens du Ponant", "Le Roi des Murgos", "Le Démon Majeur de Karanda", "La Sorcière de Darshiva" et "La Sybille de Kell".

When the gods sleep, the world begins to die. Menilmonea is a mycomanceress. Gifted with the power to commune with nature and command mushrooms, she has always lived by the strict traditions of her people and their worship of the Mother.

Les gardiens du Ponant poursuivent leur quête folle de pays en pays pour retrouver le petit enfant de Garion, enlevé par la mystérieuse Zandramas. Elle l'a emmené à l'Endroit-qui-n'est-plus pour l'égorger devant la pierre maléfique; le Dieu Noir renaîtra alors. Et le Père des dieux sait que tous ses efforts, depuis l'origine des âges, seront anéantis. Quand les Ténèbres viendront, un Grolim pourrait devenir grand-prêtre ; et le roi des Murgos se verrait bien en roi des rois. Le sort de l'univers va se décider pour des millénaires, mais où ? Le ravisseur a plusieurs mois d'avance sur Garion et ses compagnons, et la piste refroidit.

Best-selling authors David and Leigh Eddings welcome fans back to the time before The Belgariad and The Malloreon series. Join them as they chronicle that fateful conflict between two mortally opposed Destinies, in a monumental war of men and kings and gods.

It is the thirty-second millennium and an ork invasion of unparalleled scale has thrown the Imperium into scrambled action and disarray. Worlds burn, renowned Space Marine Chapters are destroyed, and now an ork attack moon looms large and threatening over Terra itself – can the beleaguered Imperial forces stave off this sudden and brutal assault?

A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagan's California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified "dinery server" on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation: the narrators of Cloud Atlas hear each other's echoes down the corridor of history.

The Imperium's initial attempts to attack the orks and kill their leader have ended in failure and tragedy, but there can be no surrender – the fate of humanity hangs in the balance. Black Library's epic The Beast Arises saga reaches its conclusion. Discover what happens when the Space Marines head to the orks' home world one final time. There can be no retreat – they must succeed in their mission… or die in the attempt.

'THE HARD-BITTEN CHAMPION OF BRITISH HEROIC FANTASY' - Joe Abercrombie 'HEROISM AND HEARTBREAK . . . GEMMELL IS ADRENALINE WITH SOUL' - Brent Weeks Legend is the classic Drenai novel from the British master of heroic fantasy, a powerful tale of courage and sacrifice in the face of overwhelming...

Even in death, Skilgannon the Damned's name lives on. Now, as an ancient evil threatens to flood the Drenai heartlands in a tide of blood, he returns.... A thousand years after they fell in battle, two heroes - Druss and Skilgannon - are revered throughout the war-torn lands of the Drenai, where men and women live in abject fear of the dark sorceress known as the Eternal.... But what if the soul of one such hero could be called back from the void, his bones housed again in flesh?

Skilgannon the Damned had vanished from the pages of history. Following the terrible triumph at Perapolis, the General had taken the legendary Swords of Night and Day and ridden from the lands of Naashan. No one knew where he had gone, and the assassins sent by the Witch Queen could find no trace of his passing. Three years later, as a mob intent on murder gathers outside a distant monastery, they are faced by a single unarmed priest. In a few terrifying seconds their world is changed for ever, and word spreads across the lands of the East.

Years ago, the Child-Goddess Aphrael had hidden Bhelliom, the Stone of Power, at the bottom of the sea. Yet now it is needed again to stop a malign force from spreading evil and destruction across the lands. Sparhawk, Queen's champion, sets out to retrieve the Stone. But others seek the gem for their own diabolical ends. Most fearsome of these are the Shining Ones, whose mere touch melts human flesh from bone.

It is the thirty-second millennium and the Imperium is under assault from an ork invasion of unparalleled scale. Terra itself has been threatened and nothing seems to be able to halt this catastrophic threat. Potential hope emerges in a distant system, but will the beleaguered Imperial forces be able to react in time?

For twenty years, the Dread Empress has ruled over the lands that were once the Kingdom of Callow, but behind the scenes of this golden age, threats to the empire are rising. The nobles of the Wasteland weave their plots behind pleasant smiles while rebellion stirs beyond Peren Woods, for dreams of crowns were buried in shallow graves. The greatest danger of all lies to the west, where the First Prince of Procer restored order at last: her people sundered, she ponders if a crusade might not be the way to secure her reign.

Gotrek and Felix: unsung heroes of the Empire, or nothing more than common thieves and murderers? The truth perhaps lies somewhere in between and depends entirely upon whom you ask.... With their friendship in tatters after a series of betrayals, Gotrek and Felix march south at the head of a ragtag army, intent upon driving the forces of Chaos out of the Empire and returning Felix to his wife. But Gotrek's doom is at hand, and great powers are at work to ensure that he meets it. With enemies on all sides and destiny calling, Felix must make a choice....

It would be sheer folly to try to conceal the true nature of Althalus, for his flaws are the stuff of legend. He is, as all men know, a thief, a liar, an occasional murderer, an outrageous braggart, and a man devoid of even the slightest hint of honor. Yet of all the men in the world, it is Althalus, unrepentant rogue and scoundrel, who will become the champion of humanity in its desperate struggle against the forces of an ancient god determined to return the universe to nothingness.