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After her bargain with Isak, the Wither Queen has become too strong to be recalled. Fulfilling her bargain with Isak, she is far to the north, hunting Elves in the forests beyond Lomin, where she find the Elves are enslaving local spirits there to use as weapons. The Wither Queen subsumes these spirits and uses their power to bolster her strength as she looks to remain a Goddess in her own right, separate from her former master, Death.

Sebe died at the start of the battle as he tried to assassinate Aracnan on a Byoran street. He managed only to wound the Demi-God, but the poison he used is now slowly killing Aracnan. The Chief of the Gods permits him to pass through onto the slopes of Ghain, the great mountain at the heart of which is the Dark Place, the home of daemons.

The Menin lord himself, lost in his grief over his dead son, is ignoring the ravages of the enraged dragon, which is laying waste to each quarter of the Circle City.

The Duchess of Byora and her ward Ruhen — a young boy who is in fact the vessel Azaer has taken as his mortal form — come to petition him, and only then is the badly injured Major Amber able to succeed in waking his lord from his all-consuming grief.

The Menin lord agrees to free his newest subjects from the dragon, and Ruhen uses the opportunity to forge a link between himself and the man grieving for his lost son. In Llehden, Mihn and the witch bury Xeliath and try to coax the traumatised Isak back to his senses.

Isak has been left broken and horribly scarred by the tortures inflicted on him in Ghenna; in the days after his escape he is a catatonic wreck. They start a programme of murdering priests of Karkarn, and send an Elven assassin to kill Count Vesna, now the Mortal-Aspect of Karkarn, in order to weaken the God of War and ultimately allow the Menin lord to replace him.

Once that is in play, the Menin lord very publically kills the dragon plaguing the city as a way to demonstrate his strength to the powerbrokers there. When Count Vesna does get back to Tirah at last, it is to a city almost under siege, as the religious factions are all struggling to control it. In Narkang, King Emin is visited by the God Larat, who warns him that the Menin will soon invade and he must not face them in battle, so powerful has the Menin lord now become.

Meanwhile Mihn hears the legend of the Ragged Man from a local girl, who presumes Isak is that figure out of folklore. After the attack on the Ruby Tower, the Menin focus entirely on invading Narkang. King Emin makes his final preparations for invasion with Legana, while desperately searching for a way to defeat a man born to be invincible in battle. When the Menin do invade, they are savage in their assault. In return, they break the bargain she made with Isak that constricts her.

Luerce and a Witchfinder within the Devoted engineer the death of a high-ranking priest who had been containing the worst excesses of the fanatics within the Devoted. All the while, Walls of Intercession appear across Byora as the desperate and mad begin to see Ruhen as a saviour sent by the Gods in the place of a corrupt priesthood. Vesna survives, but the rest of the wedding party is killed before the assassin dies.

In the aftermath he discovers there is a larger plot afoot as priests of Karkarn are also murdered. Now apart from the usual structure of Farlan society, not bound by the agreements made between Fernal and the nobility, he is free to continue the war Isak sacrificed himself for. Grieving deeply, he leaves to aid Narkang. Isak is now partially recovered, and when he discovers he has the means to defeat the Menin lord, he tells King Emin.

The battle sees terrible losses on both sides, almost shattering the allies, even as Vesna, accompanied by the Palace Guard of Tirah, arrives and forces the Menin lord into desperate actions.

Isak summons the Gods of the Upper Circle and compels them to curse the Menin lord and strip his name from history, just as they once did to Aryn Bwr. He is not killed, but entirely crippled. If his power continues unchecked, Ruhen will achieve total dominion - and not just over mankind, but over the Gods themselves. Other books in this series. The Stormcaller Tom Lloyd.

Add to basket. The Twilight Herald Tom Lloyd. The Grave Thief Tom Lloyd. The Ragged Man Tom Lloyd. The Dusk Watchman Tom Lloyd. He lives in Oxford. Rating details. Book ratings by Goodreads. Goodreads is the world's largest site for readers with over 50 million reviews.

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The future of the Land will be decided now, written in the blood of men. After his pyrrhic victory at Moorview, King Emin learns the truth about the child Ruhen. Powerless to act, he must mourn his friends and watch his enemy promise a new age of peace to the beleaguered peoples of the Land.

While the remaining Menin troops seek revenge, daemon The final reckoning has come. One final, desperate chance for victory remains and failure has become unimaginable.

The fanatical rulers of Vanach hide a secret at the heart of their nation; a weapon so terrible only a dead man could wield it and only a madman would try, but without it Narkang will be obliterated. There can be only one outcome if he continues unchecked: total dominion over the Gods themselves. Get A Copy. Paperback , pages. Published August 30th by Gollancz first published August 1st More Details Original Title.

Twilight Reign 5. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Dusk Watchman , please sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Lloyd managed to weave together for the fans of the series. Love is a strange thing to be included with all the atrocities that take place in this book and the series, for that matter.

Yet, in the end, I personally feel that love was the main character Isak's greatest virtue. While there were many in the series he hated there were also a few that he loved, and his love for his friends and the Land brought on the sacrifice that created one of the best endings to a series I have ever read.

It picks up where "The Ragged Man" left off, and then it takes off. The action level is high in the final book of "The Twilight Reign", and it starts early and shows up often, and Tom Lloyd shows a gift for writing scenes that involve blood, gore and a fast pace.

Now, the betrayals. The betrayals that were not betrayals and all that in between. I do not like to include spoilers and therefore, I will not. Suffice it to say, there are several twists that it pains me to admit I never seen coming my way, and as a reader that's what I love. I'm not an author, but I would say that unpredictability is something all authors should strive for, and Tom Lloyd nails it with "The Dusk Watchman".

While the series has been completed for a little while now, and fantasy readers are flooded with new authors and new books on a regular basis let me encourage you to make time in your reading schedule to read "The Twilight Reign" series. If you started it then let me encourage you to finish the entire series. I assure you "The Dusk Watchman" is a final entry to a series of books that will make it all worthwhile.

Check it out! This was the final volume of the Twilight Reign fantasy series. I read the first four late last year before my Wheel of Time project so it was a little tough to come back to this series after that much time had passed. Thankfully all the books in this series have a little "What Has Gone Before" section at the front of each book that summarizes the events of the previous book.

That was much appreciated. This book may be the best in the series. The first book was good too and the middle books were This was the final volume of the Twilight Reign fantasy series.

The first book was good too and the middle books were weaker in my opinion. A good conclusion to the series overall and it does not end as you might expect. This series definitely reminded me of Erikson's Malazan series with perhaps a little bit of Abercrombie thrown in. Lots of powerful characters and gods all vying for different things.

Gruesome battles and extreme violence. Not quite the "screw you, fantasy sterotypes" that I associate with Abercrombie but much of his grittiness is here. There were some very memorable moments in the series that will stick with me. I normally don't mention book covers but the covers for this series were outstanding. Todd Lockwood made each cover exactly depict a scene from the book in question.

Every detail was perfect. Feb 10, Johann Pollard rated it it was amazing Shelves: good-fantasy. Damn good ending to a damn good series. I need to let it sink in a bit. View 2 comments. Jul 22, Jack Beaman rated it it was amazing Shelves: favorites. In the series in general, I massively enjoy the world created by Tom Lloyd, with the innovative take on elves, as well as the concept of white-eyes, and the expansive cast which includes everything from common soldiers to full-on gods.

Alongside this, the system of magic is simple and effective. Many magic systems in modern fantasy books become over-ambitious and spiral out of control such that holes can easily be found, but I really enjoy the system created by Lloyd. As the conclusion to the series, there is a certain amount of hype for it in my mind.

When one combines it with what has been a fantastic series, there is certainly a lot for it to live up to. Its predecessor, The Ragged Man, finishes with a near-apocalyptic battle scene to cap off a book which is one of my favourite fantasy books of all time up alongside A Memory of Light, The Deadhouse Gates, A Storm of Swords and Prince of Thorns , and the way in which Lloyd continues the story, picking the cast back up after arguably one of the bloodiest battle scenes in fantasy literature is nothing short of amazing.

As well as this the conclusion of the book and therefore the series did not disappoint. It seems inevitable that when I read a series of books, I develop a sense of how it will all end, or at least how I would like to see it end. The last chapters of The Dusk Watchman were completely different to anything I expected, but they did not disappoint. This was a fantastic book, and I will continue to recommend the series to anyone I meet. Feb 22, Paul Nelson rated it it was amazing Shelves: books-read , all-time-favourites.

This has been one of my favorite series since I started reading fantasy novels, highly recommended for lots of reasons. That's probably just the half of it as well, coupled with exceptional characters and storey lines this series covers the lot. As a series finale this stands above most and This has been one of my favorite series since I started reading fantasy novels, highly recommended for lots of reasons. As a series finale this stands above most and the final battle as the shadow ascends to godhood is wonderful reading.

This is an easy read and many thanks for the recap at the start, continuing on this is a dark, grim novel, all of our heroes bare deep scars both mentally and physically from the journey so far.

Filled with twists, turns, unlikely traitors and violence at every turn - If you've not read this series then now is the perfect time and you definitely wont be disappointed. If you're a fan of the Game of thrones series, but wished for something a little more grittier and violent this is for you. I look forward to what Tom Lloyds imagination can produce next. Mar 12, Katrina Evans rated it liked it. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. The things I liked: The final battle is superb, I cannot rate it highly enough.

Tiniq - all the clues were there, but the betrayal still came as a shock, which I really enjoyed. The things I have issues with: I have one major issue with this book, the appearance of the magic weapon, the only weapon that can destroy the shadow is never mentioned in any of the preceding books yet every character knows it's name and what it is.

This really, really bugged my happiness, so much so that I almost stopped reading. Zhia - I don't understand, did she betray Isak et al or was she acting on Isak's orders? The latter makes more sense when you read the epilogue but it's never explained properly. Lesarl - He's so important in the earlier books but he doesn't even make an appearance in this one.

Overall, it wasn't as good as the Ragged Man, but it was better than the first three so really it's 3.