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The Paladin Trilogy #2
Upon This World of Stone
THE SECOND BOOK IN THE PALADIN TRILOGY
The Juggernaut has smashed its way across the Plains of Alencia to the very walls of Jalan’s Drift. But even as Darius rallies the forces of the Southlands to oppose it, questions begin to arise as a darker and more sinister purpose begins to make itself known. Mraxdavar the Great, Eldest of Dragons, heeds the call to render aid, but are dragons coming to the succor of their deadliest foes, mankind, simply at the behest of one human wizard? Duke Argus barters for the aid of the murderous priests of a renegade god, but are the blackest and most powerful summonings of their deity to be handed to a mortal lord merely for his personal advancement? And did the demonic scepter, the Ohric, actually exert all this time and power merely to enable a barbarian horde to break a single city, even one as large and rich as Jalan’s Drift?
In this second novel of the Paladin Trilogy, Darius struggles to understand the significance of these questions, while the unlikely team of the thief Adella and Shannon, Darius’ teen-aged Daughter, is diverted to an isolated castle where the Tyrant Regnar holds the power that has enslaved the states of the Plains of Alencia.
The Juggernaut has smashed its way across the Plains of Alencia to the very walls of Jalan’s Drift. But even as Darius rallies the forces of the Southlands to oppose it, questions begin to arise as a darker and more sinister purpose begins to make itself known. Mraxdavar the Great, Eldest of Dragons, heeds the call to render aid, but are dragons coming to the succor of their deadliest foes, mankind, simply at the behest of one human wizard? Duke Argus barters for the aid of the murderous priests of a renegade god, but are the blackest and most powerful summonings of their deity to be handed to a mortal lord merely for his personal advancement? And did the demonic scepter, the Ohric, actually exert all this time and power merely to enable a barbarian horde to break a single city, even one as large and rich as Jalan’s Drift?
In this second novel of the Paladin Trilogy, Darius struggles to understand the significance of these questions, while the unlikely team of the thief Adella and Shannon, Darius’ teen-aged Daughter, is diverted to an isolated castle where the Tyrant Regnar holds the power that has enslaved the states of the Plains of Alencia.
- GenresFantasy
250 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 12, 2012
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About the author
James A. Hillebrecht
11 books22 followersI have been working at this craft for some 35 years and have produced a dozen books in that time ranging from techno-thrillers to paranormal drama to sword-and-sorcery fantasy. The first book of the trilogy, A Rage in the Heavens http://www.amazon.com/Rage-Heavens-Pa..., was written in 1991, but it wasn’t until my daughter Barbara read it some 15 years later and insisted on reading the other two that the trilogy was completed. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_...
I live in Latrobe Pennsylvania with my wife, Margie, and our three daughters. I met the cover illustrator for the trilogy, John Blumen, when we were both in junior high school, and we have both hoped for the chance to work on a project together. The Paladin Trilogy has given us that opportunity.
I live in Latrobe Pennsylvania with my wife, Margie, and our three daughters. I met the cover illustrator for the trilogy, John Blumen, when we were both in junior high school, and we have both hoped for the chance to work on a project together. The Paladin Trilogy has given us that opportunity.
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November 4, 2025
Paladins
I will say this with each review. Paladins! That should be enough to get you reading. It's so good I read in one day. If you have read book 1, book 2 provides more of what kept you reading the first. Good, fast-paced, well written, fantasy action. Characters develop and plot thickens. Oh, that last chapter! I love me some paladin action. Picking up book 3 immediately. Would recommend.
I will say this with each review. Paladins! That should be enough to get you reading. It's so good I read in one day. If you have read book 1, book 2 provides more of what kept you reading the first. Good, fast-paced, well written, fantasy action. Characters develop and plot thickens. Oh, that last chapter! I love me some paladin action. Picking up book 3 immediately. Would recommend.
March 12, 2017
Just as great as the first book. The characters are credible and wonderfully described. The action full of great ideas, which I have not read in any other book. Absolutely recommendable. Definitely read!
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