Dragon Wing (The Death Gate Cycle)

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Dragon Wing (The Death Gate Cycle)  by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.

he Earth was destroyed.

Four worlds were created out of the ruin. Worlds for ourselves and the mensch: Air, Fire, Stone, Water.

Four Gates connect each world to the other: Arianus to Pryan to Abarrach to Chelestra.

A house of correction was built for our enemies: the Labyrinth.

The Labyrinth is connected to the other worlds through the Fifth Gate: the Nexus.

The Sixth Gate is the center, permitting entry: the Vortex.

And all was accomplished through the Seventh Gate.

The end was the beginning.

Arianus, the World of Air, is composed entirely of porous floating islands, aligned in three basic altitudes. In the Low Realm, the dwarves (now called “Gegs,” an elven word for “insects”) live on the continent Drevlin and cheerfully serve the giant Kicksey-winsey, a city-sized machine that is the source of all water in Arianus. In the Mid Realm, elves and humans jockey with and against each other for water, status, and advantage. Above them all in the High Realm live the Mysteriarchs, isolationist human wizards of the Seventh House. (To compare: the Sartan & Patryn could get to the Ninth House = The Last House, and according to Alfred - see below - the Mysteriarchs were powerful indeed but could never get close to what a Sartan or a Patryn could do.)

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