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Kellen Tavadon, son of the Arch-Mage Lycaelon, thought he knew the way the world worked. His father, leading the wise and benevolent Council of Mages, protected and guided the citizens of the Golden City of the Bells. Young Mages in training-all men, for women were unfit to practice magic-memorized the intricate details of High Magic and aspired to seats on the council. Then he found the forbidden Books of Wild Magic-or did they find him? The three slim volumes woke Kellen to the wide world outside the City's isolating walls. Their Magic was not dead, strangled by rules and regulations. It felt like a living thing, guided by the hearts and minds of those who practiced it and benefited from it. Questioning everything he has known, Kellen discovers too many of the City's dark secrets. Banished, with the Outlaw Hunt on his heels, Kellen invokes Wild Magic-and finds himself running for his life with a unicorn at his side. Kellen's life changes almost faster than he can understand or accept. Rescued by a unicorn, healed by a female Wild Mage who knows more about Kellen than anyone outside the City should, meeting Elven royalty and Elven warriors, and plunged into a world where the magic
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- Author
- Lackey, Mercedes & Mallory, James
- Publisher
- Tom Doherty Associates
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781435257948
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Fantasy
- Rating
- 4.6 / 5 (608 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- The outstretched shadow The Obsidian trilogy #1 (2003)
- The Outstretched Shadow: The Obsidian Trilogy, Book One (The Obsidian Mountain Trilogy) (2004)
- الظل الممدود [Arabic] (2003)
- The Outstretched Shadow: The Obsidian Trilogy, Book One (The Obsidian Mountain Trilogy) (2003)
- The Obsidian Mountain Trilogy 1-3 (2003)
- The Outstretched Shadow (2003)
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