

Even they will be hard pressed to save the Demon Child of prophecy… Her only hope is the healing powers of the Harshini magical beings long thought extinct. But their mother’s defeat came at great cost: not only does it leave Medalon vulnerable to invasion, R’shiel is mortally wounded.Īs Treason Keep begins, R’shiel is on the brink of death. In Medalon, Book One of the Hythrun Chronicles, Tarja Tenragen and his half sister R’shiel were forced to lead a rebellion against their power hungry mother, who ruled Medalon as the First Sister of the Blade.

They soon find themselves caught up in the rebellion against the Sisterhood, though they revile their fellow conspirators heathen belief in the Harshini a fabled race of magical beings thought long extinct.īut then Tarja & R’shiel encounter Brak, an Harshini outcast, who forces them to face the most shocking fact of all: the Demon Child, thought to be nothing more than legend, may have been loosed in Medalon.

But when they run afoul of their mother’s machinations, they must flee for their lives. Her half brother, Tarja, is the dutiful son who serves as a Captain in the Defenders. R’shiel, daughter of the First Sister of the Blade, has pulled against the short leash of her mother ever since she was a child. The Sisterhood of the Blade rules Medalon with an iron fist an iron fist within the steel gauntlet of the Defenders, elite warriors sworn to uphold the sisters and keep Medalon free of heathen influence. According to legend, the last king of the Harshini sired a half human child, known as the Demon Child, born to destroy a god…
