The Longing Ring Trilogy Omnibus

The Longing Ring Trilogy

The Longing Ring Trilogy novels: The Longing Ring, Mother Speaks and Poisoned Memories, written by Chris Kubasik, were first published in 1993 and 1994. They introduced the world of Earthdawn and helped describe the trials and tribulations of those who live there.

This Omnibus edition contains the original text of the three novels and all new interior art. The edition comes in at well over 600 pages. The deluxe edition follows the format of our core rules deluxe editions with a foil stamped leatherette hard cover, gilt page edges and a place holder ribbon sewn into the binding. Either or both editions will make great additions to anyone's library.

The Longing Ring

The Thief adept was an Ork names Garlthik, a being pursued a by a mighty magician bent on claiming the ring the ork had stolen. With no other choice, Garlthik entrusted both the magic ring and his own life to J’role, a young man cursed with a horrifying burden. J'role is an unwilling host to one of the Horrors which ages before it had driven mortals to seal themselves behind spell barriers. Now the age of hiding was over and the search for Parlainth begins.

Hoping to free himself from the Horror within by going on a quest with the ork, J’role willingly abandons his village for the lure of adventure. Possessed by both his own Horror and the ring’s seductive promise of a city of light and pursued by enemies with much more power than his own, J’role was about to discover that there were far worse dangers than staying home

Mother Speaks

Releanna had kept her twin sons safe with her magic all their young lives. She had long thought that their father, J’role, who appeared for a day or two and then vanished for months, was what they most needed protection from, but that was before the Therans returned. The Therans had once ruled all these lands through their magic and their prowess at war. Yet they had vanished so long ago they’d become legends.Until that fateful day when their flying castles, their ships of stone, appeared once again in the skies above. Her children having been taken captive and herself enslaved, Releanna swore she would find a way to save her boys. Thanks to magic gone awry, both she and J’role, free of the Therans, fall into the clutches of the mountain Trolls, known as the Crystal Raiders and it was that fatal encounter that might change the future of Barsaive and Thera alike.

Poisoned Memories

Death’s Sea was the last place on J’role’s mind when he risked his life in a desperate attempt to save a child pursued by Horrors. Yet for all of his Thief’s magic, for all his experiences with the horrors who could steal mind and soul, J’role could only offer temporary safety to the Dwarf boy Neden, son and heir to king Varulus. For Neden’s true enemy was not some nameless Horror, but Mordom, whom J’role had slain long years before. To Mordom capturing J’role was an unexpected bonus, an old enemy to be tortured for amusement and whatever knowledge he might possess, but J’role’s need to escape was greater than the bonds that held him, driving him to choose certain destruction in Death’s Sea to imprisonment on Mordom’s airship. Yet J’role was about to discover that Death’s realm held many surprises. And that sometimes, if a mortal was desperate enough and his cause was important enough, even Death might give him a second chance.