The Core
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Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Peter V. Brett brings one of the most imaginative fantasy sagas of the twenty-first century to an epic close.The war has begun…For time out of mind, bloodthirsty demons have stalked the night, culling the human race to scattered remnants dependent on half-forgotten magics to protect them.Two heroes arose—men as close as brothers, yet divided by bitter betrayal. Arlen Bales became known as the Painted Man, tattooed head-to-toe with powerful magic symbols that enable him to fight demons in hand-to-hand combat—and emerge victorious. Ahmann Jardir, armed with magically warded weapons, called himself the Deliverer, a figure prophesied to unite humanity and lead them to triumph in Sharak Ka—the final war against demonkind.But in their efforts to bring the war to the demons, Arlen and Jardir have set something in motion that may prove the end of everything they hold dear—a Swarm. Now the war is at hand, and humanity cannot hope to win it unless Arlen and Jardir, with the help of Arlen’s wife, Renna, can bend a captured demon prince to their will and force the devious creature to lead them to the Core, where the Mother of Demons breeds an inexhaustible army.Trusting their closest confidantes, Leesha, Inevera, Ragen, and Elissa, to rally the fractious people of the Free Cities and lead them against the Swarm, Arlen, Renna, and Jardir set out on a desperate quest into the darkest depths of evil—from which none of them expects to return alive.
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Peter Brett V.. The Core
Copyright
Dedication
Map
Prologue. Gaolers. 334 AR
1. Both. 334 AR
2. Olive. 334 AR
3. Countess Paper. 334 AR
4. Ragen and Elissa. 334 AR
5. The Pack. 334 AR
6. Everam Is a Lie. 334 AR
7. The Eunuchs. 334 AR
8. Monastery. 334 AR
9. The Majah. 334 AR
10. Family Matters. 334 AR
11. Sorcerers. 334 AR
12. Drained. 334 AR
13. The Last Will and Testament of Arlen Bales. 334 AR
14. Spankin’ 334 AR
15. Sisters Return. 334 AR
16. Beloved. 334 AR
17. Forest Fortress. 334 AR
18. Homestead. 334 AR
19. Hunted. 334 AR
20. The Escort. 334 AR
21. Neocounty. 334 AR
22. The Edge of Nie’s Abyss. 334 AR
23. Sharum’s Lament. 334 AR
24. First Steps. 334 AR
25. The Mouth of the Abyss. 334 AR
26. The Dark Below. 334 AR
27. Bedfellows. 334 AR
28. Araine’s Tale. 334 AR
29. Wolves. 334 AR
30. Everam’s Reservoir. 334 AR
31. Harden’s Grove. 334 AR
32. Blizzard and Quake. 334 AR
33. Evil Gives Birth. 334 AR
34. Spear of Ala. 334 AR
35. Severed. 334 AR
36. Smoke and Mist. 334 AR
37. Jessa’s Girls. 334 AR
38. Sharak Ka. 334 AR
39. Whistler’s Mind. 334 AR
40. Alamen Fae. 334 AR
41. Light of the Mountains. 334 AR
42. The Hive. 334 AR
43. The Core. 334 AR
44. Born in Darkness. 334 AR
45. The Pact. 335 AR
WARD GRIMOIRE
DEFENSIVE WARDS
BANK DEMON
CAVE DEMON
CLAY DEMON
FIELD DEMON
FLAME DEMON
LIGHTNING DEMON
MIMIC DEMON
MIND DEMON
ROCK DEMON
SAND DEMON
SNOW DEMON
STONE DEMON
SUCCOUR
SWAMP DEMON
WATER DEMON
WIND DEMONS
WOOD DEMON
OFFENSIVE (COMBAT) WARDS
COLD
CUTTING
FIRESPIT/COLDSPIT
GLASS
HEAT
IMPACT
LECTRIC
MAGNETIC
MOISTURE
PIERCING
PRESSURE
PERCEPTION WARDS
BLENDING
CONFUSION
LIGHT
PROPHECY
UNSIGHT
WARDSIGHT
Acknowledgements
About the Author
BY THE SAME AUTHOR. THE DEMON CYCLE
THE DEMON CYCLE STORIES AND NOVELLAS
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For Sirena Lilith, who is already changing my life in countless ways.
Title Page
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‘Ay, like the sound of that,’ Kendall said, taking the scroll.
‘So will you take the job?’ Leesha pressed. ‘The licence is yours regardless, but there is no one else I would have in the position.’
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