There, as the drums of war thunder across kingdoms riven by conflict, Vaelin learns a terrible truth: that there are some battles that even he may not be strong enough to win. To this end, Vaelin travels to the realms of the Merchant Kings, a land ruled by honor and intrigue. Vaelin has no wish to fight another war, but when he learns that Sherin, the woman he lost long ago, has fallen into the Horde's grasp, he resolves to confront this powerful new threat. Yet whispers have come from across the sea - rumours of an army called the Steel Horde, led by a man who believes himself a god. He won titles aplenty, only to cast aside his earned glory for a quiet life in the Realm's northern reaches.

Most of the activities in the book do not happen within his control.

Vaelin is less than thirty years old, yet a mission exists for which he must sacrifice all the things he believed in. It was his leadership that overthrew empires, his blade that won hard-fought battles - and his sacrifice that defeated an evil more terrifying than anything the world had ever seen. In the sixth order, Vaelin Al Sorna, brother of the sixth order in a dystonic realm fights a losing war against everyone. Vaelin Al Sorna is a living legend, his name known across the Realm. Now, he continues that saga with The Wolf's Call, which begins a thrilling new story of razor-sharp action and epic adventure.Peace never lasts. With Blood Song, Anthony Ryan introduced readers to Vaelin Al Sorna and the brothers of the Sixth Order and readers fell in love.When Ryan opted to expand the world beyond the Order, the the story he intended to tell required the expansion of point of view characters, a design choice which allowed readers to know what was going on other parts of the world while Vaelin wasn’t present in a.

VAELIN AL SORNA RETURNSAnthony Ryan's debut novel Blood Song-the first book of the Raven's Shadow series-took the fantasy world by storm.

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