Song of the Saurials: The Finders Stone Trilogy, Book 3 (Finer’s Stone Trilogy)
High fantasy adventure takes a turn with mystery in the final title in the Finder’s Stone Trilogy by Jeff Grubb and Kate Novak.
When the Harpers judged the Nameless Bard responsible for the death of his apprentices, they sentenced him to exile and obscurity. Now the Harpers are reconsidering their decision, but with the arrival of the monster Grypht, Nameless’s new trial dissolves in a string of disappearances and murder. It is up to the bard’s friends, Alias the swordswoman, Akabar the mage, Dragonbait the paladin, and Ruskettle the thief, to prove one enemy is behind all the chaos—the ancient evil god, Moander the Darkbringer. Unless Alias and her companions can find Nameless and convince him to sacrifice some of his precious power, Moander will return to claim the Realms.High fantasy adventure takes a turn with mystery in the final title in the Finder’s Stone Trilogy by Jeff Grubb and Kate Novak.
When the Harpers judged the Nameless Bard responsible for the death of his apprentices, they sentenced him to exile and obscurity. Now the Harpers are reconsidering their decision, but with the arrival of the monster Grypht, Nameless’s new trial dissolves in a string of disappearances and murder. It is up to the bard’s friends, Alias the swordswoman, Akabar the mage, Dragonbait the paladin, and Ruskettle the thief, to prove one enemy is behind all the chaos—the ancient evil god, Moander the Darkbringer. Unless Alias and her companions can find Nameless and convince him to sacrifice some of his precious power, Moander will return to claim the Realms.
Trilogy,
The End?,
A part of this story I particularly enjoyed is the development of some of Alia’s “Sister’s” as characters, since she was stated to have twelve who her Creators had not “activated” in the first book. One is dead, one has ended up as part of the Wyvernspur family through Giogi Wyvernspur, four more are accounted for here including the first Alias has physically met. Her Sisters are Mages, Priests, Thieves, Scholars and Warriors-and those are just the one’s we know about.
To be honest, since Alias is a magical Construct and so are her Sisters, who are more than once stated to be Immortal, I always wonder what happened to all of them? Further stories could have been written focusing on Alias and her supporting cast or any of her Sisters and a new set of characters. In theory, any or all of them could even still be around after the Spellplague, but that’s, perhaps, wishful thinking?