StarCraft - Firstborn, The Dark Templar Saga
Jake Ransey - an unassuming, yet talented archaeologist - has been given the chance of a lifetime. Hired to investigate a recently unearthed Xel'Naga temple, he knows this latest assignment will open up whole new possibilites for his career. Yet, when Jake discovers the remains of a long-dead protoss mystic, his hopes and dreams are irrevocably drowned in a flood of alien memories. Bonded to the spirit of the dead protoss, Jake as become the sole inheritor of the protoss's total history - every event, every thought - every feeling.
Struggling to maintain his own fragile identity amidst the raging psychic storm in his mind, Jake soon realizes that he has stumbled upon a secret so cataclysmic in magnitude - that it wil shake the very foundations of the universe.
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StarCraft - Shadow Hunters, The Dark Templar Saga
Driven by the living memories of a long-dead protoss mystic and hounded by the Queen of Blades' ravenous zerg, archaeologist Jake Ramsey embarks on a perilous journey to reach the fabled protoss homeworld of Aiur.
Seeking a vital piece of protoss technology, Jake finds that Aiur has been overrun by the zerg. Descending into the shadowy labyrinths beneath the planet's surface, he must find the sacred crystal before time runs out -- for him...and the universe itself.
Yet, what Jake discovers beneath Aiur is a horror beyond his wildest nightmares -- Ulrezaj -- an archon comprised of the seven most deadly and powerful dark templar in history....
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World of Warcraft - Rise of the Horde
Though the young Warchief Thrall ended the demon curse that had plagued his people for generations, the orcs still wrestle with the sins of their bloody past. As the rampaging Horde, they waged a number of devistating wars against their perennial enemy - the Alliance. Yet the rage and bloodlust that drove the orcs to destroy everything in their path nearly consumed them as well.Long ago, on the idyllic world of Draenor, the noble orc clans lived in relative peace with their enigmatic neighbors, the draenai. But the nefarious agents of the Burning Legion had other plans for both unsuspecting races. The demon-lord Kil'jaeden set in motion a dark chain of events that would succeed not only in eradicating the draenai, but forging the orc clans into a single, unstoppable juggernaut of hatred and destruction.
Vampire of the Mists
Jander Sunstar is a gold elf, a native of magical Evermeet in the Forgotten Realms. He is also a five-hundred-year-old vampire.
Torn by rage and grief, Jander is transported into the nightmare realm of Ravenloft, where he gains the attention of the demiplane's master, Count Strahd Von Zarovich. But can Jander trust this elegant fellow vampire once he discovers that his own quest for revenge is linked to the dark heritage of the count's domain?
This was the original cover of Vampire of the Mists
when it was first published in 1991..
Dance of the Dead
Larissa Snowmane is a dancer aboard a magical riverboat. For years the craft has traveled in Ravenloft, unopposed by the sinister beings that rule over the Dark Domain.
When the boat arrives at the zombie-plagued island of Souragne, however, the crew finds itself dancing to chilling music indeed. After discovering the captain's sinister secret, Larissa must rely upon the creatures of the swamp and her mastery of the magical Dance of the Dead to save her own soul.
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The Enemy Within
A killer is stalking the streets of the land of Nova Vaasa. A killer with a horrible method of murder, with hordes of devout followers, with no conscience whatsoever.
Sir Tristan Hiregaard, nobleman and warrior, is hard on the heels of the murderer. But Tristan has troubles of his own; dark secrets that are moving to destroy him. The two worlds of nobleman and butcher are about to collide in a way that Tristan cannot possibly imagine--a way that will make him question his deepest beliefs and perhaps even shatter his very soul. .
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