Trudi Canavan
The Magicians' Guild
The Black Magician Trilogy - Book One
'We should expect this young woman to be more powerful than our average novice, possibly even more powerful than the average magician.'
This year, like every other, the magicians of Imardin gather to purge the city of undesirables. Cloaked in the protection of their sorcery, they move with no fear of the vagrants and miscreants who despise them and their work - until one enraged girl, barely more than a child, hurls a stone at the hated invaders... and effortlessly penetrates their magical shield.
What the Magicians' Guild has long dreaded has finally come to pass. There is someone outside their ranks who possesses a raw power beyond imagining, an untrained mage who must be found and schooled before she destroys herself and her city with a force she cannot yet control.
'Truly magical... a wonderfully and meticulously detailed world and an edge-of-the-seat plot... a must for lovers of good fantasy.'
'Not far now,' Cery assured her.
She followed him over a wall into a large, neat garden. The trees were tall and symmetrical. He led her along in the shadows of a wall that seemed to go on forever.
'Where are we?'
'Wait and see,' Cery replied.
Something caught her foot and she stumbled against a tree. The roughness of the bark surprised her. She looked up and around. Endless trees stood like sentries before her. In the dark they looked strange and sinister, a forest of clawed arms.
Her heart began to race. She hurried after Cery and grabbed his arm.
'Hai! What are you doing?' she gasped. 'We're in the
His teeth flashed. 'That's right.' She felt his hand on her shoulder. 'Don't worry, Sonea. Think about it. Where are the magicians? In the slums. You're actually safer here than there.'
She drew in a sharp breath and shook her head. 'But... the
Books by Trudi Canavan
The Magicians' Guild
The Novice
The High Lord
TRUDI CANAVAN lives in a little house on a hillside, near a forest, in the Melbourne suburb of Ferntree Gully in Australia. She has been making up stories about things that don't exist for as long as she can remember and was amazed when her first published story received an
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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