Morningstar

by David Gemmel

First published 1992

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Owen Odell, a travelling performer with small magical talents, attaches himself to Jarek Mace, a charismatic outlaw whose courage is matched by vanity, appetite and self-interest. Under foreign oppression, Mace's victories begin to turn him into the figure people call Morningstar.

Owen's account shows how rebellion transforms an unreliable man into a necessary symbol. As a necromancer awakens the Vampyre Kings and the struggle becomes supernatural, storyteller and warrior must face the gap between the legend a frightened people need and the complicated person who happens to carry it.