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Foreword

This book began as a series of stories in which I attempted to recreate the magical mood of the work of Lord Dunsany. As I went forward, the characters took up residence in my imagination, and the world of Kal-Noh and Si-Lun became a part of my interior landscape. Before I was finished with that world, I had written four novels set in different parts of it, Lords of the Triple Moons being a sort of prehistory, and Warlock’s Gift an entirely independent book, set on a distant continent.

Seekers, however, was the first, and almost every chapter of it began with an intensely clear visual image of a vital scene. This enchanting experience hooked me firmly into writing fantasy, and it was one that I will always treasure. How the Gods Wove in Kyrannon followed immediately, and it is thinly linked with this story, though set in a distant part of this world.

Now, over thirty years later, I can still enter that world, and I find it an amazing place to visit.

—Ardath Mayhar

Chireno, Texas

October 2007