title: Winds of Fate (The Mage Winds, Book 1)
author:  Mercedes Lackey 
description: First of a new trilogy, Lackey's fantasy novel, again set in the imperiled magical realm of Valdemar, features strong and believable men, women and creatures. <BR>Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: Winds of Fate
  
  
  ## Book 1 of Mage Winds
  
  
  ### Mercedes Lackey
  
  
  CONTENTS
  
  
  The Legend:4
  
  
  The Chronicles:6
  
  
  Chapter One ELSPETH..7
  
  
  Chapter TwoDARKWIND..31
  
  
  Chapter ThreeELSPETH..52
  
  
  Chapter FourDARKWIND..71
  
  
  Chapter FiveELSPETH..90
  
  
  Chapter SixDARKWIND..109
  
  
  Chapter SevenELSPETH..130
  
  
  Chapter EightDARKWIND..152
  
  
  Chapter NineELSPETH..178
  
  
  Chapter TenDARKWIND..206
  
  
  Chapter ElevenELSPETH..224
  
  
  Chapter TwelveDARKWIND..242
  
  
  Chapter Thirteen INTERLUDE.266
  
  
  Chapter FourteenELSPETH..274
  
  
  Chapter FifteenDARKWIND..297
  
  
  Chapter SixteenELSPETH..313
  
  
  Chapter SeventeenDARKWIND..340
  
  
  Chapter EighteenELSPETH..360
  
  
  Chapter NineteenINTERLUDE.375
  
  
  Chapter TwentyDARKWIND..380
  
  
  Chapter Twenty-oneELSPETH..406
  
  
  Dedicated to
  
  
  the memory of
  
  
  Donald A. Wollheim
  
  
  A gentleman and a scholar
  
  
  The Legend:
  
  
  Long ago, in the days of the first King, for whom the Kingdom of Valdemar is
  named, it came to the King that he was growing old. Now Valdemar had led his
  people out of the hands of a ty