The Wall: Book One - Siege
- ISBN-10
- 149188147X
- ISBN-13
- 9781491881477
- Series
- The Wall
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 726
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-10-26
- Publisher
- Author House
- Author
- C J Bromfield
Description
The story is set on the planet Ilici and tells the age old story of good versus evil. The Walls was built eon ago when the Dark Lord Silo attempted to bring all of Ilici under his and his dark god domination. The dark Lord attempts were defeated in a climactic battle after a war which lasted 10 years. He was driven back into his lands and to stop him from once more bringing war and grief to the other nations of Ilici a great Wall was built across the only pass through the mountains that imprisons him into his own land. For him to fulfil his dark God desire, he must find a way to overcome the Wall. Opposing him is not only the Wall but an Alliance of Nation, led by King Ironsides, who is determine to defend the Wall, but also to end his hold on the unfortunate Nation of Hakionery. Help come from a surprising quarter when a prisoner, Maddinton, falsely accused of treason escapes from the hell of the cooper mine he has been imprison in. The floor of the mine shaft he was in collapse throwing him into a labyrinth of old tunnels only to be rescued by the Gomers, a race of dwarfs, master craftsmen in stone. It was these dwarfs who had help the first alliance build the Wall. With their help Maddinton was finally able to escape labyrinth he had found himself in. News had reached King Ironsides that the Wall was under attack from huge siege weapons. Would Ironsides and his army reach the wall in time? Maddinton wife, Malien, having lost her Husband and young Son following her arrest now finds herself falling in love with the very man who was the author of her predicament. The Lord Silo.
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