Das Herz der verlorenen Dinge

The Heart of the Lost Things offers all new readers an entry into the world of Osten Ard. It picks up at the end of the last volume of The Secret of the Great Swords and opens a new cycle full of deadly abysses and intrigues thirty years into the future.

Tad Williams’ answer to George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones.

Osten Ard stands at a crossroads once again. King Simon's and Duke Isgrimnur's warriors have succeeded in driving the Elven people back to their stronghold in the mountains. The war seems over, but the killing continues. The mortals are not satisfied with their victory; they seek to completely eradicate the people of the Norns. Then news spreads that the ancient Norn queen Utuk'ku is not dead at all, but merely in a death-like sleep from which she will return...