Legend

Name: Legend
Rating: 4.6 (7916 reviews)

by David Gemmel Book 1 in the Drenai series.

First published 1984

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The fortress of Dros Delnoch stands between the Drenai lands and the vast Nadir army led by Ulric. Its defenders are outnumbered, politically divided and expected to fail, but the arrival of the ageing warrior Druss gives soldiers and civilians a living symbol around which to rally.

Among them is Rek, a reluctant fighter whose instinct is to flee danger until love and duty draw him into command. As wall after wall falls, the siege becomes a test not of certain victory but of how people face fear, death and impossible odds when courage is the only thing they can still choose.