Mage Wars

Lackey is a prolific fantasy author with an extensive blacklist. Many of her novels are interlinked and set in and around the nation of Valdemar in the Velgarth universe. Her books span some 3000 years of Velgarth history. Lacky is a well-known genre name with an online presence on Facebook, Twitter, blogs etc. This omnibus collects Mercedes Lackey's bestselling and much loved first series of Valdemor novels: The Black Gryphon, The White Gryphon and The Silver Gryphon. Titan also published Lackey's brand new Collegium Chronicles and Herald Spy series, set in the same universe, as well as her Elemental Masters Novels.

The Mage Wars series is a trilogy of books that act as prequels for the Valdemar universe. They are set approximately 3,000 years before the rest of the books. They focus on the wars fought between Urtho and Ma'ar, and then of the development of the town of White Gryphen.Set around three thousand years before the rest of the Valdemar series, this is the ancient history of Velgarth and the story of Skandranon Rashkae, a gryphon with gleaming ebony feathers, keen magesight and acute intelligence. He is the fulfillment of all that the Mage of Silence, the human sorcerer called Urtho, intended to achieve when he created these magical beings to be his champions, the defenders of his realm - a verdant plain long coveted by the evil mage Ma'ar. Together with Amberdrake, a Healer of body, mind and spirit, Skandranon will defend his nation from his evil counterparts created by Ma'ar, the makaar. The glorious city of White Gryphon will rise from the ashes, but it will take careful negotiation, spying and terrible war against the mysterious Black Kings to secure the stronghold. Even then, the elite guard force, the Silver Gryphons, will discover a greater terror lurking in the forests beyond the city walls...The Mage Wars omnibus follows Skandranon and his lifelong friend, Amberdrake, and their children, as they seek to establish and defend a Kingdom of peace and tranquillity.