Elegy of Flesh and Blood (The Age of Man, #1)

For a millenia, the desert city of Perlenstadt has withstood siege from an army of mindless stone-men called felschecs. It is perhaps the only city on the continent to have remained free of the felschec armies and their masters, owing to the fact that the sister-druids Ada and Duera built it specifically for this purpose.

But nothing lasts forever. When a pirate is captured in a distant march, he offers information in exchange for his freedom. Information that allows the felschecs to finally...