title: The Darkest Road (Fionavar Tapestry)
author:  Guy Gavriel Kay 
description: <b><b>Praise for The Fionovar Tapestry<br /></b></b><br />Kay has delivered such a magnificent...volume that I cant praise it enough. The Fionavar Tapestry is a work that will be read for many years to come. It is a book that makes one proud to be working in the same genre as its author.Charles de Lint<br /><br />Im overwhelmed...<i>The Summer Tree</i> is one of those books that change your perception of the world forever afterward.Marion Zimmer Bradley<br /><br />A remarkable achievementthe essence of high fantasy.<i>Locus<br /><br /></i>Kays intricate Celtic background will please fantasy buffs...in the manner of <i>The Silmarillion</i>, the posthumous Tolkien work that Kay helped edit.<i>Publishers Weekly<br /></i><br />Immense scale, literary richness and dazzling heroes.<i>Toronto Star</i><br /> <br /> Certainly this is one of the very best of the fantasies which have appeared since Tolkien, and I trust it will be recognized as such.Andre Norton<i><br /> <br /> </i>This is the only fantasy work I know which does not suffer by comparison to <i>The Lord of the Rings</i>.<i><i>Interzone</i><br /><br /> </i>Can be compared only with Tolkiens masterpiece. A passionate battle between good and evil...it delights the spirit.<i><i>Star-Phoenix</i><br /></i><br />Satisfying...a highly literate, lovingly detailed work of fantasy.<i><i>Fantasy Review</i></i><br /><br />Kay's bestsellingand stunningfantasy trilogy finds its power not in its feats of imagination or world-building (though there are dazzling heapings of both) but from its rootedness in the reality of human emotions and relationships.<i>The Globe and Mail</i><br /><br />A grand galloping narrative...reverberates with centuries of mythic and incantory implicationswith a little Prince Hal and Falstaff on the side.<i>Christian Science Monitor</i><br /> <br /> <i>The Fionavar Tapestry</i>, when all is said and done, is one of the most beautifully written and moving fantasy trilogies ever written. Those are very large words, but I truly believe this book is large enough to fit into such a reputation.Green Man Review
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  Guy Gavriel Kay
  
  
  # THE DARKEST ROAD
  
  
  Book Three  
    
  
  
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  THE FIONAVAR TAPESTRY  
    
    
    
    
    
    
  
  
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  _At the end of this road as at the beginning of all roads are my parents_ ,
  
  
  _SYBIL AND SAM KAY_.  
    
    
  
  
  _This tapestry is theirs_.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # CONTENTS
  
  
  [Cover](cvi.htm)
  
  
  [Title Page](tp.htm)
  
  
  [Map](map.htm)
  
  
  [THE CHARACTERS](fm.htm#fm)
  
  
  [PART I: THE LAST KANIOR](part1.htm#part1)
  
  
  [Chapter 1](c01.htm#c01)
  
  
  [Chapter 2](c02.htm#c02)
  
  
  [Chapter 3](c03.htm#c03)
  
  
  [PART II: LISEN’S TOWER](part2.htm#part2)
  
  
  [Chapter 4](c04.htm#c04)
  
  
  [Chapter 5](c05.htm#c05)
  
  
  [Chapter 6](c06.htm#c06)
  
  
  [Chapter 7](c07.htm#c07)
  
  
  [Chapter 8](c08.htm#c08)
  
  
  [Chapter 9](c09.htm#c09)
  
  
  [PART III: CALOR DIMAN](part3.htm#part3)
  
  
  [Chapter 10](c10.htm#c10)
  
  
  [Chapter 11](c11.htm#c11)
  
  
  [Chapter 12](c12.htm#c12)
  
  
  [Chapter 13](c13.htm#c13)
  
  
  [PART IV: ANDARIEN](part4.htm#p