Thirteen-year-old Ilien Woodhill can’t remember who he is. But when he does, all Hell will break loose.
Ilien has lived the sheltered life of a normal boy from a small nowhere town. His biggest worry is the pair of bullies who wage a relentless battle to break his spirit. But all that soon changes when the old man, Gallund, comes to stay at the house. Gallund is a wandering professor of language, but the nouns, verbs, and adjectives he teaches can do much more than hurt someone’s feelings. They can kill.
But Ilien knows nothing of Gallund’s heritage, of the dark tales told around late-night fires concerning the legendary Nomadin wizards and the prophesy that dooms them to extinction. He’ll soon learn more than Gallund will teach him. A shadow touches the peaceful land of Nadae. An ancient evil is stirring. Already a NiDemon has crossed from the land of the dead. It seeks the forbidden child of Nomadin wizards, forbidden because the child is foretold to free the dreaded Necromancer from his prison to destroy all creation. Now Ilien must run – from a monster of unimaginable cunning and power toward a fate far more frightening than that which hunts him. But he cannot run forever. Eventually he will have to make a stand. Soon or later he will have to face what the legendary Nomadin fear most . . . Himself.
