The Elenium · Book 1

The Diamond Throne

by David Eddings

Published
1 January 1989
Pages
435
ISBN-13
9780345367693
Type
novel

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About this book

The Diamond Throne opened The Elenium in 1989 at 435 pages, recalling battle-scarred Pandion Knight Sparhawk from exile to find his queen, Ehlana, poisoned into a magical coma and encased in slowly killing crystal.

Its place in The Elenium

The Diamond Throne is book 1 in the The Elenium series. It is followed by The Ruby Knight. See the full The Elenium reading order.

The Elenium introduces Sparhawk, a battle-scarred Pandion Knight recalled from ten years of exile to find the queen he serves, Ehlana, poisoned into a magical coma by a rival sorceress and encased in enchanted crystal that's slowly killing her. With his queen's fading life as a ticking clock, Sparhawk assembles a mismatched party of knights from rival militant church orders -- men trained to distrust each other on principle -- alongside the ancient, foul-tempered Styric sorceress Sephrenia, to search for a…

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