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Valley of the Shadow reads like historical fiction with a strong mythical twist. The story begins in the distant past with a war between Eurynomos, a god who wants to destroy the world, and Phylasso, a god who wants to preserve it. Eurynomos's soldiers are the Forsaken, little more than reanimated corpses bound to Eurynomos's will. Phylasso has built an army of men and women to whom he has granted immortality. Known as the Khryseoi, they are reborn if they are killed but preserve their memories.
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Excellent mythic fantasy featuring the immortal Khryseoi in their ongoing battle against ultimate evil. Raven and his companions are the Hand of the Khryseoi, survivors of an epic battle which cost them more than two-thirds of their number, and, apparently, their leader. They were thirty thousand at the beginning, when the cryptic Phylasso gifted them with their immortality. But now their powers and their gifts are fading, and the dark is rising again. There are those among the Khryseoi who woul
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How shall I describe this excellent novel? Is it a saga, a historical novel, a fable, a chronicle, or a mixture of all these elements? Michael Gardner takes us back two thousand years Before Christ. A war rages between two armies. On one side, the evil, soldiered by the living dead. On the other side, the good, thirty thousand of earth's bravest warriors, selected by the Gods and granted the precarious gift of everlasting life. The final, indecisive battle is over, but for the few survivors the
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