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Table of Contents
BOOK ONE
Chapter the First
Chapter the Second
Chapter the Third
Chapter the Fourth
Chapter the Fifth
Chapter the Sixth
Chapter the Seventh
Chapter the Eighth
Chapter the Ninth
Chapter the Tenth
Chapter the Eleventh
Chapter the Twelfth
Chapter the Thirteenth
Chapter the Fourteenth
Chapter the Fifteenth
Chapter the Sixteenth
Chapter the Seventeenth
BOOK TWO
Chapter the Eighteenth
Chapter the Nineteenth
Chapter the Twentieth
Chapter the Twenty-First
Chapter the Twenty-Second
Chapter the Twenty-Third
Chapter the Twenty-Fourth
Chapter the Twenty-Fifth
Chapter the Twenty-Sixth
Chapter the Twenty-Seventh
Chapter the Twenty-Eighth
Chapter the Twenty-Ninth
Chapter the Thirtieth
Chapter the Thirty-First
Chapter the Thirty-Second
Chapter the Thirty-Third
Chapter the Thirty-Fourth
Some Notes
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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are either products of the
author's imagination or are used fictitiously.
THE PATHS OF THE DEAD: BOOK ONE OF THE VISCOUNT OF ADRILANKHA
Copyright © 2002 by StevenBrust
"Publisher's Note" copyright ©2002 by Emma Bull
"Some NotesToward Two Analyses of Auctorial Method and Voice" copyright © 2002 by Teresa
Nielsen Hayden
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof, in any form.
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First edition: December 2002
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RESTORATION
"Your lordships perceive," began the envoy, "that I wear the Phoenix livery."
"We had even remarked upon it," said Daro.
"I serve the one called Sethra Lavode, whose name is, I expect, not unknown to you. And Sethra, on
her part, serves Zerika."
"Zerika?" said Khaavren. "I do not believe I know her, but—"
"She is," said the envoy, "the last being born of the House of the Phoenix. Her mother was the Princess
Loudin, the Phoenix Heir at the time of Adron's Disaster. Her father was—"
"Vernoi," said Khaavren, suddenly remembering a conversation with that worthy gentleman, a scant few
days before the fall of the Empire.
"It seems Lord Vernoi had a premonition of catastrophe, and sent his wife, the Princess Loudin, to a
safe place some days before the Disaster, where she was delivered of a child."
 
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"Zerika."
"Exactly. And it is now the last time…" His voice trailed off and he looked expectantly at Khaavren.
"Yes? It is now time?"
"Well, Sethra Lavode deems the time is ripe."
"The time is ripe for what, my dear sir?"
"As to that, I cannot say…"
BOOKS BY STEVEN BRUST
The Dragaeran Novels
BrokedownPalace
The Khaavren Romances
The Phoenix Guards
Five Hundred Years After
The Viscount of Adrilankha
Which comprises
The Paths of the Dead
The Lord of Castle Black
Sethra Lavode
The Vlad Taltos Novels
Jhereg
Yendi
Teckla
Taltos
 
Phoenix
Athyra
Orca
Dragon
Issola
Other Novels
To Reign in Hell
The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars
Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille
The Gypsy (with Megan Lindholm)
Freedom and Necessity (with Emma Bull)
For Betsy
Acknowledgments
Thanks to David S. Cargo, with whom I consulted on the economics of feudal expansion, and Ilona
Berry, who helped with geography. Thanks to Beki Oshiro, who did some great research for me. Thanks
to Terry McGarry for outstanding copyediting. Without some timely remarks by Jason Jones, the books
would have been worse by twelve inches or so.
As always, thanks to Robert Sloan, a.k.a. Adrian Morgan, who did so much work on Dragaeran history
and background.
Much thanks for heroic Scribblification to Pamela Dean, Will Shetterly, and Emma Bull (who also threw
in the title).
It would, in addition, be manifestly unfair if I did not mention the various Dragaeran fan pages, most
particularly Mark A. Mandel's Web site, Cracks and Shards , which, at this writing, is at:
world.std.com/~main/Cracks-and-Shards/. I continually found myself using this site as a reference to
avoid tripping over my own feet, especially with such matters as timing and geography. Thanks to this,
most (or at least, many) of the inconsistencies between this book and my other works set on Dragaera
were introduced maliciously, rather than by accident.
The Viscount of Adrilankha
BOOK ONE
 

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