Ornth

Ornth is the first of three books dealing with the following questions: Can consciousness be moved from one person to another What is the essential nature of civilization Do people naturally wish to be free or secretly yearn to be enslaved Is Clarke's Third Law true Could distinct intelligent species inhabit the same territory for more than a few generations without one wiping out the others Jodos is a warlord torn between completing his father's dream of conquest and finding his own path. Dinya is a renegade from a remote but powerful people who once ruled the world. Elmark is the last survivor of a tribe that stumbled across ancient magic, only to have it be their death. Their paths intersect and force them to come together to locate and control the Ornth, a device that Dinya's people built and intend to use to restore their place as the dominant race of Ani -- "the people" -- in Mermarkiddin.