Series: Drenai

Legend. Druss, Captain of the Axe: the stories of his life were told everywhere. Instead of the wealth and fame he could have claimed, he had chosen a mountain lair, high in the lonely country bordering on the clouds. There, the grizzled old warrior kept company with snow leopards and awaited his old enemy, death. The Fortress. Mighty Dros Delnoch,...

High in the wooded, peaked mountains of Skeln, the woodsman, Dakeyras, and his beautiful daughter Miriel, live a life of harmonious solitude. Unbeknown to them, a group of grim-eyed, bloodthirsty warriors stalk the mountains. Men who have never known defeat, to whom revenge and torture are meat and drink. For ten thousand in gold they are eager to kill the...

The Drenai King is dead - murdered by a ruthless assassin. Enemy troops swarm into Drenai lands. Their orders are simple - kill every man, woman and child. But there is hope. Stalked by men who act like beasts and beasts that walk like men, the warrior Waylander must journey into the shadow-haunted lands of the Nadir to find the...

A century has passed since the heroic defence of Dros Delnoch. But the people of the Drenai face a new terror: a mad emperor kept in power by two forces of unsurpassed evil. The Joinings are werebeasts of awesome power. The Dark Templars are warrior-priests whose fighting skills are without equal. Against them, the Drenai face certain defeat. One man,...

The Drenai fortress of Dros Delnoch has fallen, and blood-hungry Nadir hordes sweep across the land, bringing desolation and despair. But, with the Nadir triumphant, slavers seize a young girl in the tiny realm of Gothir, and a peasant boy sets off on a quest that will shake the world. To rescue her, Kiall must cross the savage steppes and...

The First Chronicles Of Druss The Legend by David Gemmell introduces Druss, a character who is both the legend and saviour of Skeln Pass, as well as the protector of Dros Delnoch. Renowned and feared, Druss is one of Drenai's most iconic heroes. Yet, before his fame, Druss was a young husband, more often found hewing trees than battling foes,...