When two of the world's greatest adventurers disappear, it falls to their heirs - Jake Warbler and the half-sprite Noxie - to retrace their steps and confront whatever evil took them. The only clues point to a literary enigma from the depths of the Last Tragedy of Coeldoetta of Jueln. Missing and unread since the fall of long-ago empires, the Tragedy has doomed a thousand previous seekers. Can Jake and Noxie unearth this legendary play after so many others have failed? Or will they fall victim along the way to the same bloody-minded cult that vanquished their missing elders? The Last Tragedy begins Herb Mallette's Delvonian Tales series, a quartet of sweeping, adventurous fantasies set in a world of skyships and floating continents, brimming with magic, full of peril, and peopled with heroes of wit and skill whose villainous enemies know no boundaries of hate.
When two of the world's greatest adventurers disappear, it falls to their heirs - Jake Warbler and the half-sprite Noxie - to retrace their steps and confront whatever evil took them. The only clues point to a literary enigma from the depths of the Last Tragedy of Coeldoetta of Jueln. Missing and unread since the fall of long-ago empires, the Tragedy has doomed a thousand previous seekers. Can Jake and Noxie unearth this legendary play after so many others have failed? Or will they fall victim along the way to the same bloody-minded cult that vanquished their missing elders? The Last Tragedy begins Herb Mallette's Delvonian Tales series, a quartet of sweeping, adventurous fantasies set in a world of skyships and floating continents, brimming with magic, full of peril, and peopled with heroes of wit and skill whose villainous enemies know no boundaries of hate.