Dirshan-the central character and voice in this novel-was my literary first child. I've written a lot of novels since that first effort over forty years ago; but his adventures in the first four books have recently garnered a lot of interest. So much so that I was prompted to write him into a new one, one that continues his life as he became Emperor of Alithar and then evolves into the living force of chaos as the Tilter of Worldes. The setting is some fifty cycles (or years) after the first four novels, and has Dirshan again wandering the Worlde. He finds that he has become the focus of...

Dirshan-the central character and voice in this novel-was my literary first child. I've written a lot of novels since this first effort over forty years ago; but his adventures in the first four books have recently garnered a lot of interest. So much so that I was prompted to rewrite him into some new ones that continues his life as he became Emperor of Alithar and then evolves into the living force of chaos as the Tilter of Worldes. But this is the first one that tells of his life, rewritten to reflect changes in his life that emerge as he from the beginning. It removes a lot of the...

Dirshan-the central character and voice in this novel-was my literary first child. I've written a lot of novels since this first effort over forty years ago; but his adventures in the first four books have recently garnered a lot of interest. So much so that I was prompted to rewrite him into some new ones that continues his life as he became Emperor of Alithar and then evolves into the living force of chaos as the Tilter of Worldes. But this is the second one that tells of his life, rewritten to reflect changes in his life that emerge as he rises from the beginning. It removes a lot of the...