title: World of Warcraft: Arthas - Rise of the Lich King
author:  Christie Golden 
description: <i>New York Times</i> bestselling and award-winning author <b>Christie Golden</b> has written more than thirty novels and several short stories in the fields of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Visit her website at: ChristieGolden.com.
zlib_text: ## A WARHAMMER NOVEL
  
  
  
  
  
  ### REAPER OF SOULS
  
  
  ## Darkblade - 03
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Dan Abnett & Mike Lee
  
  
  ## (An Undead Scan v1.1)
  
  
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  This is a dark age, a bloody age, an age of daemons and of sorcery. It is an
  age of battle and death, and of the world’s ending. Amidst all of the fire,
  flame and fury it is a time, too, of mighty heroes, of bold deeds and great
  courage.
  
  
  
  
  
  At the heart of the Old World sprawls the Empire, the largest and most
  powerful of the human realms. Known for its engineers, sorcerers, traders and
  soldiers, it is a land of great mountains, mighty rivers, dark forests and
  vast cities. And from his throne in Altdorf reigns the Emperor Karl Franz,
  sacred descendant of the founder of these lands, Sigmar, and wielder of his
  magical warhammer.
  
  
  
  
  
  But these are far from civilised times. Across the length and breadth of the
  Old World, from the knightly palaces of Bretonnia to ice-bound Kislev in the
  far north, come rumblings of war. In the towering World’s Edge Mountains