The Curse and the Promise of the Golden Scroll

After her father is slain when she is only three weeks old, Taleah is taken into the palace of his best friend, Talan, Lord of Estaron. Cared for as his own child, Taleah has always known the High Knowledge from the teaching of the Elandara, and the words of the Golden Scroll. However obedient she intends to be, her bright and mischievous spirit still inadvertently and consistently brings chaos to the halls of the palace. As Lord Talan says, "She regularly gives the palace guards nightmares."

While on a journey which is meant to be a wonderful treat, tragedy strikes, depriving her of all she has known and loved. Lost and utterly alone, she is forced to survive in a world torn by war and besieged by a deadly enemy, the darkened ones, the Vancor. Grief and deprivation destroy her memory. Having forgotten who she is, and where she belongs, she questions her worth and believes herself to be unloved and unlovable. Whatever else she has forgotten, she still remembers the teaching of the Elandara and the words of Golden Scroll. She clings to the High Knowledge in the midst of unspeakable horrors.

The long struggle to find her way home shows her a world she never knew existed. She encounters the needs and griefs of elves that live far from her sheltered life in the palace. Taleah endures grueling tests of her physical strength, her moral integrity, and her willingness to put the welfare of others above her own. She learns that she was never forsaken by the Elandara or by the Comarion, the great beasts and immortal guardians of her world.

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