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THE BLACKGOD
THE BLACKGOD
The Blackgod
Chosen of the Changeling: BOOK TWO
J. Gregory Keyes
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THE BLACKGOD
A DelRey ® Book BALLANTINE BOOKS • NEW YORK
A DelRey ® Book
Published by The Ballantine Publishing Group
Copyright © 1997 by J. Gregory Keyes
Illustrations copyright © 1997 by David A. Cherry
Maps copyright © 1997 by Kirk Caldwell
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the
United States by The Ballantine Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and
simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 97-97125
ISBN 0-345-41880-8
First Hardcover Edition: April 1997 First Mass Market Edition: May 1998
For My Mother—Nancy Ridout Landrum
CONTENTS
Prologue: Death
Part One: MANSIONS OF BONE
I. The Mang Wastes
II. Rebirth
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THE BLACKGOD
III. Snow Thunder
IV. The Godsight
V. The Blackgod
VI. Old Friends
VII. Surrounded by Monsters
VIII. Tales of the Changeling
IX. The Reader of Bones
X. A Game of Slap
XI. The Codex Obsidian
XII. The Breath Feasting
XIII. Becoming Legion
XIV. Horse God Homesending
XV. Beneath the Temple
XVI. Gaan
Interlude: The Emperor and the Ghoul
Part Two: UPSTREAM PASSAGES
XVII. Kinship
XVIII. On the Barge
XIX. Drum Battle
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THE BLACKGOD
XX. Dragons
XXI. The Shadow Man
XXII. The Dreamsnare
XXIII. Deep Wounds
XXIV. Sorceress
XXV. Falling Sky
XXVI. Demons
XXVII. Stormherd
Interlude: A Letter to Ghan
Part Three: THE GODS OF SHE’LENG
XXVIII. The Drum Scout
XXIX. Forward-Falling Ghost
XXX. The Roadmark
XXXI. The Lady of Bones
XXXII. Beauty
XXXIII. The Steepening Trail
XXXIV. The Teeth of the Host
XXXV Shamans
XXXVI. Erikwer
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THE BLACKGOD
XXXVII. Changeling Blood
XXXVIII. Horse Mother
XXXIX. The Goddess
Epilogue: A Different-Colored Spring
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
For Moral Support: John Keyes, Tim Keyes, Earl Ridout, Helen Ridout
For Criticism: Ken Carleton, Veronica Chapman, Gene Crawford,
Tom Deitz,
Pat Duffy, Nell Keyes
And for Hard Work:
Christine Levis
PROLOGUE
Death
Ghe plunged his steel into the pale man’s belly, watched the alien gray eyes widen in shock, then narrow
with terrible satisfaction. He yanked to withdraw his blade and, in that flicker of an instant, realized his
mistake. The enemy edge, unimpressed by its wielder’s impalement, swept down toward his exposed
neck.
Li, think kindly of my ghost , he had time to think, before his head fell into the dirty water. Even then, for
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