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'Ware Hawk

by Andre Norton

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Series: Witch World: Estcarp Cycle (7), Witch World: Publication Order (1983.09), Witch World (15)

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Spurred on by a recurring dream, Tirtha accompanied by a falconer, embarks on a dangerous journey to her ancestral home, aware that she is bound by a spell to fulfill a mission whose purpose is unknown to her.
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This is one of my favorite Andre Norton's. It's almost a romance. I love stories with a blank shield or a sell sword. Here is one who is also from a woman hating race who has to work for a woman and who eventually gives up his way of life (even if that way of life has been destroyed) to settle down with her. Plenty of action and the normal Norton type of hallucinations and magic use. ( )
  Luziadovalongo | Jul 14, 2022 |
Deeply enmeshed in sorcery and magic, the story is taut with conflict and suspense.
added by rat_in_a_cage | editThe Horn Book Magazine
 

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Gaughan, JackCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Schwinger,LaurenceCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Waugh, BrianCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Estcarp, the last-held land of the Old Ones in the latter days, was ruled by the Witch Women with the Power that had once been the heritage of all those from whom they had sprung.
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Spurred on by a recurring dream, Tirtha accompanied by a falconer, embarks on a dangerous journey to her ancestral home, aware that she is bound by a spell to fulfill a mission whose purpose is unknown to her.

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Tirtha was the last of the line of Hawkholme. Men who hated those of the Old Race had destroyed her clan, and she alone lived to carry the burden of her family's destiny.

Driven by a powerful magic to return to her ancestral home, she set out into the twisted, ruined mountains of Estcarp. her hired guide was a Falconer, a man of an ancient warrior race who was also alone in the world, and falconless.

But a Dark One was determined to foil their mission - and only together could they hope to stand against its awesome powers.
    LIGHT AND SHADE

The casket gleamed with a light issuing from it, for the cover had been raised and thrown back. The carvings on it possessed a life of their own, appearing to change shape, to crawl and move. Some were words and symbols of Power.

That wisp of half shadow which was the left hand of he Lord, and the one which was the right hand of his Lady moved forward as one. Together they clasped the lid of the casket, closing it.

Tirtha felt the old and familiar rise of cold fear. Now was the coming of evil.
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