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Young Garander's sister Ishta insists on going off into the woods by herself, even though there could be very dangerous things living there – monsters, remnants of the great war between the Northerners with their sorceries and Ethshar, a war that destroyed the Northern empire and, in the end, shattered Ethshar into multiple pieces.

This time, Ishta has found something strange and wonderful, a talisman that shows strange, glowing shapes when touched. Such ancient devices could be harmless… or lethal. Garander makes her show it to their father, Grondar, who sends Garander off with the talisman to show it to the local Baron's magicians. They cannot identify it… and refuse to return it, something which makes Ishta so furious she won't speak with Garander for a long time.

And then Garander finds her in the woods again, but this time she has not found a talisman, but a person – a mysterious wanderer all in black who calls himself "Tesk". Tesk seems harmless, but frighteningly strange; he lives in the woods, under no roof, never staying in the same place, and moves with a superhuman speed and dexterity.

Garander remembers vague tales of a Northern weapon – a man fused with a demon, dressed all in black, the shatra. Grondar remembers more: that the shatra were so dangerous that only a very powerful wizard – or a full-grown dragon – could face one and live.

Is Ishta speaking with a living remnant of the war that shattered the world?

And if she is… what should Garander do?

As with all of Lawrence Watt-Evans' stories I've read, the tale draws you in quickly, giving you a grasp of the characters without seeming to spend time detailing them. By the time Garander's heading out into the world on his own, nervous about coming to the Baron's castle by himself, you already know him well enough to worry for him about what will happen. While reading other books set in Ethshar certainly won't hurt, the way Relics is written eliminates the need; all the information required to understand the plot and characters is included transparently in the prose without infodumps.

Relics of War is a good title; it doesn't just refer to the shatra Tesk, but to the talismans and weapons he carries and owns, and, more generally, to the broken and still-healing countries around him, as well as the people who have survived the war, and wish to avoid another.

Garander and Ishta are warm-hearted children (well, Garander's eighteen, so only a child from the point of view of someone like me, I suppose), with Ishta being somewhat more trusting, and Garander trying to be the rational, cautious one. But both of them are willing to give Tesk the benefit of the doubt – and, to their surprise, so is their father Grondar.

Tesk himself is a figure of considerable pathos, despite his potential power. He is, literally, a leftover weapon, a creation whose sole purpose was to be an almost indestructible force on the battlefield, striking terror into the Ethsharitic forces. With his entire country no longer in existence – even the cities ruined – he has no purpose, no home, and nowhere to go. After twenty years, he has discovered the true pain of loneliness, and wishes only a few friends.

But he represents both vast danger, and vast opportunity, to the other powers still present in Ethshar, and they will not leave him alone for long…

I really enjoyed this story. Despite the fact that the plot eventually involves high politics and great danger, Garander still manages to be a driving force in the plot, and the greatest power of all isn't the shatra's superhuman strength or the wizards of the lords who come to seek him out; it is kindness and trust.

I highly recommend Relics of War!


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Relics of War A Legend of Ethshar Lawrence WattEvans 9781479404643 Books Reviews

This is another in an ongoing, very loosely-connected series of books set in Lawrence Watt-Evans' "Ethshar" fantasy world.

This particular novel is set shortly after the Great War, about twenty years. A little girl in the Baronies of Sardiron stumbles across a man in the forest. Eventually they discover that he's a "shatra"--basically a magical half-man, half-demon created by the North in the war against Ethshar. The North got wiped out by not quite EVERYTHING go wiped out with them. But is he a friend, an agent of some kind, or something else?

This is a good, fast-paced book and I found myself often going "just one more chapter". The story is intriguing and different than your average fantasy story (Watt-Evans is good at this) and I wanted to know how it was going to work out. The ending is solid, satisfying, and probably realistic.

One annoying apsect of this book however, and to be fair it probably wasn't the author's fault (they rarely pick the covers). Watt-Evans has been loosely dedicating a book or two to each of the various branches of magic in Ethshar. To judge from the cover on this book you'd think it was dedicated to witchcraft--no, no it's not. Not remotely. Not in the slightest way. A minor league annoyance, but an annoyance nonetheless.

Highly recommended for fans of good, fast-paced fantasy, fans of Ethshar, and of course anybody who's a fan of Lawrence Watt-Evans' works.
Good book in the Ethshar series. One can hardly relate this Shatra to the one in 'Misenchanted Sword' and he seems more in need of pity than anything else. One can assume that the Shatra is essentially immortal, as he has survived long after the war and is apparently in okay condition. Most unlikely aspect seemed to be that the Baron tolerated without much complaint the intrusion of the Ethsharites into his territory.
This was a great introduction to a new trilogy, that brings you into a complex and unique world. There are a huge number of books involving dragons on the market, and most of them use the same tired plots. It was refreshing to have something new and different in how both dragons and humans interact and affect each other. It was very different from any other dragon related fantasy series I have ever read.
This book didn't get the credit it deserved when it first came out. The author had a large number of followers that already liked his work, so the publishing company didn't really do anything to promote it. This is a terrible shame since it is so unique in a market of the same repetitive plot lines. If you never have never read any of Lawrence Watt-Evans' books, then this is one to read.
Young Garander's sister Ishta insists on going off into the woods by herself, even though there could be very dangerous things living there – monsters, remnants of the great war between the Northerners with their sorceries and Ethshar, a war that destroyed the Northern empire and, in the end, shattered Ethshar into multiple pieces.

This time, Ishta has found something strange and wonderful, a talisman that shows strange, glowing shapes when touched. Such ancient devices could be harmless… or lethal. Garander makes her show it to their father, Grondar, who sends Garander off with the talisman to show it to the local Baron's magicians. They cannot identify it… and refuse to return it, something which makes Ishta so furious she won't speak with Garander for a long time.

And then Garander finds her in the woods again, but this time she has not found a talisman, but a person – a mysterious wanderer all in black who calls himself "Tesk". Tesk seems harmless, but frighteningly strange; he lives in the woods, under no roof, never staying in the same place, and moves with a superhuman speed and dexterity.

Garander remembers vague tales of a Northern weapon – a man fused with a demon, dressed all in black, the shatra. Grondar remembers more that the shatra were so dangerous that only a very powerful wizard – or a full-grown dragon – could face one and live.

Is Ishta speaking with a living remnant of the war that shattered the world?

And if she is… what should Garander do?

As with all of Lawrence Watt-Evans' stories I've read, the tale draws you in quickly, giving you a grasp of the characters without seeming to spend time detailing them. By the time Garander's heading out into the world on his own, nervous about coming to the Baron's castle by himself, you already know him well enough to worry for him about what will happen. While reading other books set in Ethshar certainly won't hurt, the way Relics is written eliminates the need; all the information required to understand the plot and characters is included transparently in the prose without infodumps.

Relics of War is a good title; it doesn't just refer to the shatra Tesk, but to the talismans and weapons he carries and owns, and, more generally, to the broken and still-healing countries around him, as well as the people who have survived the war, and wish to avoid another.

Garander and Ishta are warm-hearted children (well, Garander's eighteen, so only a child from the point of view of someone like me, I suppose), with Ishta being somewhat more trusting, and Garander trying to be the rational, cautious one. But both of them are willing to give Tesk the benefit of the doubt – and, to their surprise, so is their father Grondar.

Tesk himself is a figure of considerable pathos, despite his potential power. He is, literally, a leftover weapon, a creation whose sole purpose was to be an almost indestructible force on the battlefield, striking terror into the Ethsharitic forces. With his entire country no longer in existence – even the cities ruined – he has no purpose, no home, and nowhere to go. After twenty years, he has discovered the true pain of loneliness, and wishes only a few friends.

But he represents both vast danger, and vast opportunity, to the other powers still present in Ethshar, and they will not leave him alone for long…

I really enjoyed this story. Despite the fact that the plot eventually involves high politics and great danger, Garander still manages to be a driving force in the plot, and the greatest power of all isn't the shatra's superhuman strength or the wizards of the lords who come to seek him out; it is kindness and trust.

I highly recommend Relics of War!