Rukes faces calamity. After the loss of so many in the Northern Void wastelands, he returns to Urlas to try to prepare the survivors. When a destructive entity shatters the sacred realm, the Blademaster makes his stand with a handful elves to try to preserve his people.
With so much loss, he tries to hold on to hope.
This is the final instalment in the Blademaster series.
In this story even more than the others, I really do feel for Rukes, our intrepid Blademaster of Urlas. Being in charge of the other Blades is a great responsibility and one Rukes feels deeply, so when he leads them to the North to face a threat there and they all end up dead except for him, the guilt eats him alive. All alone now, he heads back to Urlas only to find it just about deserted and the shield failing. There are less than forty people still there, and those are children, the wounded and the old. There is just so much sadness and guilt in this story. There are also some surprises contained herein as well. I am very sorry to read the ending of the Blademaster series of the Dwemhar Realms.
I received an advanced reader’s copy and am voluntarily leaving this review.
Rukes has returned to Urlas. A devastated Urlas with a little over 30 survivors. An Urlas where it's protective pillars are starting to crumble and allowing death from an alternate reality to threaten a final devastation. An Urlas that Rukes still needs to protect. Author JT Williams in the Blademaster: Urlas' Guardian paints a dark picture for what will turn out to be a hopeless last stand. Ugh!