title: The Seven Kingdoms: The Darkening Lands
author: Harry G. Sherwin
description: Harry Sherwin was born in Southampton, England and raised not far away in the small village of Whiteparish. Harry has always had a keen interest in reading and writing and spent much of his childhood coming up with wild stories of dragons and knights. The idea of the Seven Kingdoms came to Harry whilst on holiday and at last he decided to pursue his passion and write his story down. Despite working on A levels at the same time, Harry persevered with help from his friends, family and teachers and at last produced the first book in what he hopes will be a series of successful novels.
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  [Title Page](section-0001.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  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, explorers, traders and soldiers, it is
  
  
  a land of great mountains, mighty rivers, dark forests
  
  
  and vast cities. It is a land riven by uncertainty, as three
  
  
  pretenders all vye for control of the Imperial throne.
  
  
  
  
  
  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, the orc tribes are gathering for another assault.
  
  
  Bandits and renegades harry the