title: Curse of the Mistwraith (The Wars of Light and Shadow, Book 1) (The Wars of Light & Shadow) by Wurts, Janny New Edition (2004)
author:  Janny Wurts 
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  The Wars of Light and Shadows
  Two princes, dark and fair
  Cursed by the Mistwraith, Desh-thiere
  Hate bound them
  Blood crowned them
  'Til cold death, war must hound them:
  Vie for the shadows and the light
  Die blind in shadows, burned in light
  Cry, 'Down the shadows, hail the light!'
  verse from a children's game
  Fourth Age 1220
  I. MISCREANT
  On the morning the Fellowship sorcerer who had crowned the King at
  Ostermere fared northward on the old disused road, the five years of peace
  precariously re-established since the carnage that followed the Mist-
  wraith's defeat as yet showed no sign of breaking.
  The moment seemed unlikely for happenstance to intrude and shape a
  spiralling succession of events to upend loyalties and kingdoms. Havish's
  coastal landscape with its jagged, shady valleys wore the mottled greens
  of late spring. Dew still spangled the leaf-tips, touched brilliant by early
  sunlight. Asandir rode in his shirtsleeves, the dar