title: Scepters (Corean Chronicles, Book 3)
author: L. E. Modesitt
description: The concluding volume in Modesitt's Corean Chronicles trilogy (after <i>Legacies</i> and <i>Darknesses</i>), an intriguing blend of martial fantasy and SF, gets off to a slow start, then picks up steam once the vivid and inventive magic starts flying. The Lord-Protector of Lanachrona calls the supernaturally "Talented" but oh-so-reluctant hero, Alucius, back to duty as commander of the Northern and Southern Guard to quell rebels determined to reinstate the True Duarchy. Meanwhile, his beloved wife, Wendra, who's just given birth, is abducted by a mysterious Ancient One, an angelic soarer who teaches her about "the threads of life, and how they may be mendedand unravelled." Wendra also learns the importance of destroying the alien ifrits, who seek to reactivate all pre-Cataclysm "Tables" (which serve as conduits between vast distances) to invade the land of Corus. Romance clearly isn't Modesitt's forte (there's a one-sentence love scene), and Wendra is a little boring until she takes her baby along to fight the ifrits, but male readers age 15 and up should enjoy the ride after they get past some tedious dialogue and superfluous military detail. <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: SCEPTERS
   Corean Chronicles Book 3
   By
   L. E. Modesitt Jr.
   Contents
   Part I.
       THE SCEPTER OF THE PAST
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34
   35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65
   66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96
   97 98 99 100 101 102 103
   Part II.
   THE SCEPTER OF THE PRESENT
    104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125
   126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147
   148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163
   SCEPTERS
    
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   Tor Books by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
    
   The Corean Chronicles
   Legacies
   Darknesses
   Scepters
    
   The Spellsong Cycle
   The Soprano Sorceress
   The Spellsong War
   Darksong Rising
   The Shadow Sorceress
   Shadowsinger
  