Determined not to lose him again, Raederle travels with Morgon. Now, he must journey to the city of Lungold, to find the remaining wizards, battle the city's founder, the evil Ghisteslwchlohm, and finally learn the meaning to the riddle of the three stars on his face. He has been harried from one end of the realms to another, lost the land-rule of Hed and started to learn wizardry. Morgon has become very powerful, as adept at changing his shape as the shapechangers who want to kill him. The trilogy's last book, Harpist in the Wind, opens with Morgon and Raederle reunited in An. In the end, she becomes something that not even she recognizes anymore. In the pursuit of her own quest, Raederle learns that her magical powers are not so small as she had believed and that they stem from the very shapechangers who are hunting Morgon. Joined by the martial Lyra of Herun and Tristan, Morgon's younger sister, Raederle sets out to find him. No one has any idea what happened to him or where the High One's harpist, his escort, has gone. Morgon, for whom she was waiting, disappeared after leaving Isig on the last leg of his journey to Erlenstar Mountain. In the second book in the trilogy, The Heir of Sea & Fire, Raederle of An is the main character. He learns to change his own shape, but he cannot unravel the riddle of the three stars on his forehead or the harp and sword that were obviously made for him centuries before he was born. He acquires a harp and a sword, both decorated by three stars.

Along the way, he is pursued by mysterious shapechangers who try to kill him again and again.

Thus begins his quest across the realms that will ultimately take him to the court of the High One at Erlenstar Mountain, for someone or something fears the meaning of the three stars on his face.

Traveling with him is the High One's harpist, Deth.īut Morgon's journey to An is interrupted by a shipwreck, leaving him on a strange shore, voiceless and nameless. Having bested the ghost of Peven of Aum in a riddle match, he travels to An to claim his prize, the hand in marriage of Raederle, the second most beautiful woman of An.

Morgon, the Prince of Hed, born with three stars on his forehead and educated at the College of Riddlery, is such a man. It is a time when all knowledge is couched in riddles and the learned man is a master of riddlery. Patricia McKillip, The Riddle-Master of Hed trilogy

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