The Complete Elenium Trilogy: The Diamond Throne, The Ruby Knight, The Sapphire Rose

Also by David Eddings (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

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DAVID EDDINGS

The Diamond Throne

The Elenium

BOOK ONE

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Dedication (#ulink_6d465dd4-d238-54fd-86b8-737a02ed5fee)

For Eleanor and for Ralph,

For courage and for faith.

Trust me.

Contents

Cover (#u857aee38-07a7-5e07-9814-fedfb2a5865c)

Title Page (#uce912686-0b75-50aa-9e67-8b8f08c03008)

Map (#ulink_0abc6853-8872-538b-9190-b195911d00e7)

Dedication (#ulink_cbce63bf-c5f7-51dd-96f7-3b99fd7b63c0)

Prologue (#ulink_f5930487-29ec-5fce-9d54-c151ed20bb30)

Part One: Cimmura

Chapter 1 (#ulink_ed1e3eab-5706-50a2-a7c6-9aeab8832adc)

Chapter 2 (#ulink_76a165e2-2ca8-59a4-b91b-8f4d5682e07d)

Chapter 3 (#ulink_7d8e62eb-d48b-5035-be28-2af4c2d571ab)

Chapter 4 (#ulink_62174b40-051a-5c76-b6cc-c5f6928c9642)

Chapter 5 (#ulink_78f26b82-8cee-53b9-ba79-7b309cd62ab4)

Chapter 6 (#ulink_237d824c-5006-5ed5-9723-e3bc78153dbc)

Chapter 7 (#ulink_e1a08d19-638d-51c8-9f17-1b95553a5ccd)

Chapter 8 (#ulink_e978bbc0-e4b6-58c1-b14e-2d55d1ae9fe6)

Chapter 9 (#ulink_56fba678-a5dc-5838-9dce-a3c0d69517aa)

Part Two: Chyrellos

Chapter 10 (#ulink_61c48d52-3341-53fc-bcb5-b466931ae92d)

Chapter 11 (#ulink_09370277-fea2-56b1-80dd-4f132329c5e2)

Chapter 12 (#ulink_63349294-fde2-5a8b-b0ed-bfecc60e3fef)

Chapter 13 (#ulink_109bb787-b79d-5b4f-a06a-ab5b113eef6f)

Chapter 14 (#ulink_0032f35e-47c8-5776-bf7b-05658b2b7100)

Chapter 15 (#ulink_8ac88e0b-bba2-5f99-9921-4695a1f5b1c0)

Chapter 16 (#ulink_21c5afd6-d760-5fd0-b71d-4681c9b89237)

Part Three: Dabour

Chapter 17 (#ulink_2f1d048e-cfda-5dcd-ad2f-c01c3263295f)

Chapter 18 (#ulink_00695df4-cb32-50bf-801e-510c8c802e6c)

Chapter 19 (#ulink_44676581-54e0-5184-bc9f-6a9b3f468528)

Chapter 20 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 21 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 22 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 23 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 24 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 25 (#litres_trial_promo)

Prologue (#ulink_21022f6b-da1e-5407-978a-1b32c2832c58)

Ghwerig and the Bhelliom – From the Legends of the Troll-Gods

At the dawn of time, long before the ancestors of Styricum slouched, fur-clad and club-wielding, out of the mountains and forests of Zemoch onto the plains of central Eosia, there dwelt in a deep cavern lying beneath the perpetual snows of northern Thalesia a dwarfed and misshapen Troll named Ghwerig. Now, Ghwerig was an outcast by reason of his ugliness and his over-whelming greed, and he laboured alone in the depths of the earth, seeking gold and precious gems that he might add to the treasure-hoard which he jealously guarded. Finally there came a day when he broke into a deep gallery far beneath the frozen surface of the earth and beheld by the light of his flickering torch a deep blue gemstone, larger than his fist, embedded in the wall. Trembling with excitement in all his gnarled and twisted limbs, he squatted on the floor of that passage and gazed with longing at the huge jewel, knowing that its value exceeded that of the entire hoard which he had laboured for centuries to acquire. Then he began with great care to cut away the surrounding stone, chip by chip, so that he might lift the precious gem from the spot where it had rested since the world began. And as more and more it emerged from the rock, he perceived that it had a peculiar shape, and an idea came to him. Could he but remove it intact, he might by careful carving and polishing enhance that shape and thus increase the value of the gem a thousand-fold.

When at last he gently took the jewel from its rocky bed, he carried it straightaway to the cave wherein lay his workshop and his treasure-hoard. Indifferently, he shattered a diamond of incalculable worth and fashioned from its fragments tools with which he might carve and shape the gem which he had found.