The Dragon Society

by Lawrence Watt-Evans

Overview

It all began with Dragon Weather: a wave of incredible heat, oppressive humidity, dark angry clouds . . . and dragons. Dragons with no remorse, no sympathy, and no use for humans. Dragons who destroyed an entire village and everyone in it. Everyone, that is, except the young boy Arlian.

Orphaned and alone, Arlian was captured by looters and sold as a mining slave. Seven years later he escaped, fueled by years of hatred for the dragons, bandits, and slavers who took away his youth-and a personal vow to exact retribution from all those who have wronged him, including the powerful Lord Enziet Arlian's entire life has one purpose, and one purpose only: to mete out justice. And in the climactic battle of Dragon Weather Lord Enziet fell to this justice.

In The Dragon Society Arlian returns to Manfort, the city that is home to The Dragon Society, whose sworn purpose is to stand against the dragon menace, and whose foremost member had been Lord Enziet. Arlian must immediately deal with the consequences of Enziet's death. But what he finds is shocking, for the doomed Enziet believes that Arlian might well be the best hope humanity will ever have for defeating the dragons . . . permanently.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940164290979
Publisher:	Misenchanted Press
Publication date:	11/01/2020
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	878,563
File size:	565 KB

About the Author

Born and raised in Massachusetts, Lawrence Watt-Evans has been a full-time writer and editor for more than twenty years. The author of more than thirty novels, over one hundred short stories, and more than one hundred and fifty published articles, Watt-Evans writes primarily in the fields of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and comic books. His short fiction has won the Hugo Award as well as twice winning the Asimov's Readers Award. His fiction has been published in England, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Poland, France, Hungary, and Russia He served as president of the Horror Writers Association from 1994 to 1996 and after leaving that office was the recipient of HWA's first service award ever. He is also a member of Novelists Inc., and the Science Fiction Writers of America. Married with two children, he and his wife Julie live in Maryland.

Editorial Reviews

Having survived an encounter with a dragon, Arlian also known as Lord Obsidian qualifies as a member of the elite and dangerous Dragon Society, whose members enjoy the benefits of agelessness and increased vigor even as they grow less human with each passing year. When Arlian inherits the secret knowledge of a fellow Society member, he takes upon himself the challenge of waging a final war against dragonkind and against the other members of the Dragon Society. Veteran fantasist Watt-Evans's sequel to Dragon Weather combines swashbuckling fantasy with serious themes of self-sacrifice and personal courage in an adventure that belongs in most libraries. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

Sequel to Dragon Weather (1999), to be followed by Dragon Venom, completing The Obsidian Chronicles in 2003. After Obsidian, his village, is destroyed by dragons, who have been asleep in caves under the Lands of Man for centuries, Arlian is sold by Lord Dragon to slave in the amethyst mines. He escapes seven years later and, now a man, is taught the arts of war and trading by new companion Black. Because he has absorbed dragon venom and human blood, Arlian is admitted into Lord Dragon's Dragon Society, a group set on learning all it can about dragons and magic. With many of Arlian's enemies belonging to the Dragon Society, did Lord Dragon know that dragons were bent on destroying Obsidian? As a dragonheart immune to aging and no longer entirely human, Arlian, now known as the wealthy and superhumanly charismatic Lord Obsidian and still obsessed with destroying the three dragons who destroyed his village, returns to Manfort with Black and, having slain Lord Dragon, finds himself inheritor of Lord Dragon's secrets. Arlian is set on justice, not just vengeance, but subthemes point to a more complex message: Dragonhearts tend toward coldness even to each other, and Arlian has already killed three of the five dragonhearts he vowed to dispatch for their crimes. Actually, he must kill them all, friends or enemies, since Lord Dragon's great secret is that dragons reproduce after a thousand years of incubation in envenomed humans-and Arlian himself may well become a dragon in Dragon Venom. The Dragon Society summons Arlian and accuses him of conspiring to keep information from it about dragons. War with the dragons looms, however, and will the society, itself dragons in embryo, side with thehumans against itself? A strong advance, envenomed with plotibilities.

Kirkus Reviews