DemonWars: First Heroes: The Highwayman and The Ancient (Saga of the First King) by R.A. Salvatore


DemonWars: First Heroes: The Highwayman and The Ancient (Saga of the First King)
PDF DemonWars: First Heroes: The Highwayman and The Ancient (Saga of the First King)
By R.A. Salvatore
ISBN 0765376164
ISBN-13 9780765376169
Publication 04 December 2025
Number of Pages 608
Format Type Paperback

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And all of northern Honce will fall under the shadow of the merciless and vengeful Samhaists DemonWars First Heroes The Highwayman and The Ancient Saga of the First King I have to say that this book was phenomenal The story came together seamlessly and R. Demonwars reformation A Salvatore created a hero who had to overcome his own personal demons to become who he was destined to be the emotional struggles alone made this one worthwhile Loved it Science Fiction Fantasy An amazing adventure that was a real page turner one of the better fantasy series I ve read Science Fiction Fantasy I never doubted R. Demonwars reformation A Salvatore enjoys an ever expanding and tremendously loyal following His books regularly appear on The New York Times best seller lists and have sold than 10000000 copies Salvatore s original hardcover The Two Swords Book III of The Hunter s Blade Trilogy October 2004 debuted at 1 on The Wall Street Journal best seller list and at 4 on The New York Times best seller list His books have been translated into numerous foreign languages including German Italian Finnish Greek Hungarian Turkish Croatian Bulgarian Yiddish Spanish Russian Polish Portuguese Czech and French. DemonWars ebook reader A Salvatore enjoys an ever expanding and tremendously loyal following His books regularly appear on The New York Times best seller lists and have sold than 10000000 copies Salvatore s original hardcover The Two Swords Book III of The Hunter s Blade Trilogy October 2004 debuted at 1 on The Wall Street Journal best seller list and at 4 on The New York Times best seller list His books have been translated into numerous foreign languages including German Italian Finnish Greek Hungarian Turkish Croatian Bulgarian Yiddish Spanish Russian Polish Portuguese Czech and French. Demon worshippers Salvatore s first published novel The Crystal Shard from TSR in 1988 became the first volume of the acclaimed Icewind Dale Trilogy and introduced an enormously popular character the dark elf Drizzt Do Urden Since that time Salvatore has published numerous novels for each of his signature multi volume series including The Dark Elf Trilogy Paths of Darkness The Hunter s Blades Trilogy and The Cleric Quintet. Demonwar saga R Tolkien s The Lord of the Rings as a Christmas gift He promptly changed his major from computerscience to journalism He received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Communications from Fitchburg State College in 1981 then returned for the degree he always cherished the Bachelor of Arts in English He began writing seriously in 1982 penning the manuscript that would become Echoes of the Fourth Magic Salvatore held many jobs during those first years as a writer finally settling in much to our delight to write full time in 1990. Demonwars reformation A Salvatore Collection has been established at his alma mater Fitchburg State College in Fitchburg Massachusetts containing the writer s letters manuscripts and other professional papers He is in good company as The Salvatore Collection is situated alongside The Robert Cormier Library which celebrates the writing career of the co alum and esteemed author of young adult books. DemonWars kindle unlimited Salvatore is an active member of his community and is on the board of trustees at the local library in Leominster Massachusetts He has participated in several American Library Association regional conferences giving talks on themes including Adventure fantasy and Why young adults read fantasy Salvatore himself enjoys a broad range of literary writers including James Joyce Mark Twain Geoffrey Chaucer Shakespeare Dante and Sartre He counts among his favorite genre literary influences Ian Fleming Arthur Conan Doyle Fritz Leiber and of course J. DemonWars kindle unlimited Born in 1959 Salvatore is a native of Massachusetts and resides there with his wife Diane and their three children Bryan Geno and Caitlin The family pets include three Japanese Chins Oliver Artemis and Ivan and four cats including Guenhwyvar. Demonwars reformation When he isn t writing Salvatore chases after his three Japanese Chins takes long walks hits the gym and coaches plays on a fun league softball team that includes most of his family His gaming group still meets on Sundays to play site_link site_link Collected together for the first time First Heroes is the exciting start to New York Times bestselling author R A Salvatore s Saga of the First Kings series In The Highwayman Salvatore takes his readers back to his signature world of Corona many years before the DemonWars introducing a fascinating new hero The roads are unsafe to travel goblins and bloodthirsty Powries search out human prey Two religions struggle fiercely for control Only the Highwayman travels freely his sword casting aside both Powries and soldiers The people need a savior but is the Highwayman on a mission of mercy or vengeance In The Ancient Bransen Garibond is tricked into journeying across the Gulf of Corona to the wild lands of Vanguard where he is pressed into service in a desperate war If Branson fails all who live on the lake will perish I d not have made it through twenty four books so far chronicling his legend if Salvatore had no skill with words If he could not tell a story the story in the way it needed to be told deftly and surely his words always underlying and uplifting the most important elements his characters. Demonwars reformation In delving into a whole new world of his own imagining I had to wonder if Salvatore s magic existed only in the Realms Having just finished The Highwayman the first of two books collected in DemonWars First Heroes I can assure you it does not The Highwayman chronicles the emergence of a new hero a character like none I have read before An accident of birth left Bransen Garibond crippled Walking is an effort talking almost beyond him Still his adoptive father loves and cares for him His existence is softly tragic an orphan who still has a place and the care of a good man Where his body fails him his mind does not Bransen all but teaches himself to read and devours the only book in the house the very book that turned the lives of his parents upside down. DemonWars kindle app Through the teachings of the Jhesta Tu Bransen struggles for control of his body Then a miracle occurs Contact with an Abellican soul stone helps him make the proper connections and for the first time he is able to stand up straight So begins an alternate life one Bransen cannot fully embrace right away His infirmity makes him a target of the Samhaists and bullies but also provides a convenient disguise. Science Fiction Fantasy demonwars saga Bransen s problems pale in comparison to those plaguing Corona however The stirrings of a civil war bands of powrie dwarves and the conflict between the Samhaists and the Church of the Blessed Abelle take precedence Bransen cannot join the fight and his alter ego the Highwayman is not invested in either conflict but his experiments with agility put him squarely in the middle of both. Demonwars eye for an eye The second book included in this volume The Ancient picks up the story pretty much where it was left Along with his wife and mother in law Bransen has been banished from Pryd Town He would journey south to look for enlightenment among his mother s people the Jhesta Tu but the civil conflict has spread making travel difficult Indeed he must often spend the day in the guise of The Stork the bumbling stumbling cripple no laird would be interested in drafting into service. Demonwars reformation Unfortunately the Highwayman is highly sought after and his identity isn t the secret Bransen thought it might be Enticed by word his father might still live Bransen is tricked into heading north and drafted into service against trolls goblins barbarians and powrie dwarves in a quest to settle the north There the conflict between the Samhaists and Abellican church also continues which introduces a cataclysmic ripple into the plot The Ancient reads like a novel of the Forgotten Realms if one will forgive the comparison Bransen is one of a cast of characters as he was in The Highwayman In the first volume he is the title and the subject though That is his story The Ancient is the story of his purpose or the destiny that finds him through the putting together of a band of adventurers and the eventual defeat of the big evil I enjoyed the journey and if there had been a third book tucked into this volume I would have turned the page and kept reading. EPub demonwars saga The first volume of The DemonWars Saga was published in 1996 That s nearly twenty years ago Salvatore s signature world doesn t carry the same number of books as his popular legend of Drizzt but I found the story and the world to be as compelling His style and many of his character types were recognisable but that did not lull me into believing I d drifted between Realms Always I was aware of being in a new place one just as carefully thought out and inhabited by a wide array of races monsters and magic. Demonwars reformation Chronologically the Saga Of The First King slots in before The DemonWars but as with all of Salvatore s series can be read before or after Each of his novels is always a complete adventure which is one of the reasons I ve been faithfully reading his books for years and years and years Another reason would be his heroes They re humble and full of faults They stumble and make mistakes They question their actions and motivations They re very human regardless of race and that makes them very easy to identify with Bransen Garibond is just such a hero and I look forward to journeying forward with him. Demonwars reformation Written for SFCrowsnest Science Fiction Fantasy 5 star Perfect4 star i would recommend3 star good2 star struggled to complete1 star could not finish Science Fiction Fantasy DemonWars First Heroes was a pleasant surprise I had heard a lot of positive buzz about Mr Salvatore but hadn t read much by him When I opened this large volume I knew that I would be spending quite a few days in this world so I hoped that it would be worth it Well just let me tell you I was completely pulled into the story and characters in the first book The Highwayman After I was finished I had to put it aside for a week or so I had to read a couple other books on my list Then when I came back to read The Ancient I was surprised by how Mr Salvatore expanded his world He had concentrated most of the action in The Highwayman around Bransen Garibond He is the Highwayman In The Ancient he brought in other locations and peoples The first book was quite straight forward The plot was lineal you could tell where you were at and knew that it would finish up in this one book not be one of those dreaded serial novels With the second book I thought Oh no This book has way too many things going on It will never come to a satisfying ending in just this one book It s way too big But I was wrong Mr Salvatore is a master He brought it all together What a great finale I will have to put the next book in this series The Dame on my Books to Read list. EPub demonwars saga This volume was a great introduction to the writing of R A Salvatore The two books allow you to really get to know what a great storyteller he is This is a fantasy and it does have heroes and villains and swords and magic but it doesn t feel like a typical Sword Sorcery book The humans have flaws and aren t all good or all bad They have concerns and problems They aren t the superheroes that only fight for good nor the super villains that want to destroy everything And you can see that there is something else going on a world view of the competing religious philosophies you know that sometime in the future they will come together in some way and this makes you want to read in this series Mr Salvatore really draws you in to this world. Demonwars eye for an eye I really enjoyed this multi book volume I give DemonWars First Heroes 4 1 2 Stars out of 5 and a Big Thumbs Up This is a great introduction to the fabulous storytelling of R A Salvatore His writing really does live up to all the buzz If you have any interest in fantasy and haven t read these books I strongly recommend that you pick up this volume You won t be disappointed Science Fiction Fantasy

DemonWars: First Heroes: The Highwayman and The Ancient (Saga of the First King) By R.A. Salvatore
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