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The core, Peter V. Brett

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Peter V. Brett

The demon cycle, book 5

"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. 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. Then two heroes arose--men as close as brothers, yet divided by bitter betrayal. Arlen Bales became known as the Warded Man, tattooed head to toe with powerful magic symbols that enable him to fight demons in hand-to-hand combat--and emerge victorious. 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. Look for Peter V. Brett's complete Demon Cycle: THE WARDED MAN, Provided by publisher"The epic fantasy saga of humans winnowed to the point of extinction by night-stalking demons, and the survivors who fight back. The New York Times bestselling Demon Cycle series comes to its epic conclusion"--, Provided by publisher

Prologue: Gaolers -- Both -- Olive -- Countess Paper -- Ragen and Elissa -- The Pack -- Everam is a lie -- The Eunuchs -- Monastery -- The Majah -- Family matters -- Sorcerers -- Drained -- The last will and testament of Arlen Bales -- Spankin' --Sisters return -- Beloved -- Forest Fortress -- Homestead -- Hunted -- The Escort -- Neocounty -- The edge of Nie's Abyss -- Sharum's lament -- First steps -- The mouth of the Abyss -- The dark below -- Bedfellows -- Araine's tale -- Wolves -- Everam's reservoir -- Harden's grove -- Blizzards and quake -- Evil gives birth -- Spear of Ala -- Severed -- Smoke and mist -- Jessa's girls -- Sharak Ka -- Whistler 's mind -- Alamen Fae -- Light of the mountains -- The hive -- The core -- Born in the darkness -- The Pact