The Menders Tomb continues the Elfdreams series. Steadfast friends, Magick, many wands, the Mender Fisher, and improbable allies help the first Wandmaker, Yannuvia, bear his burdens, strengthen the fledgling community Vydaelia, and battle against overwhelming odds. The Wandmakers life mate, Morganne, struggles with her pregnancy and complex relationship with Yannuvia. Beautiful sea elf Piara also bears burdens and seeks answers to her bond with an ancestor to whom she bears remarkable resemblance and from whom she gained Menderish traits. The unpredictable Good Witch, the Dreamraider Amica, stirs the pot. The Dreamraider also carries a burden. Grayness touches the Wandmakers childhood friend, Kirrie, who helps the Good Witch in more ways than one. Will Yannuvia, Piara, Kirrie, and their allies find clues to unravel the mysteries of the Menders Tomb and discover bridges between their underworld realm and the World of the Three Suns, Donothor, ancient doomed Sagain, and the pretty blue world with its stone circles? Will fire Magick serve or undo Yannuvia and Kirrie? Escape to Elfdream! Dr. Ts Rx for fantasy are the following: Deathquest to Parallan, the Orb of Chalar, the Death of Magick, the Chalice of Mystery, the Dawn of Magick, Lost Spellweaver, First Wandmaker, Wandmakers Burden, Emerald Islands, and the Menders Tomb.

Drelvish Spellweavers are born during approximations of the Gray Sun Andreas. The gifts of Andreas to the People of the Forest, the ancient spell book, replicates at a Spellweavers birth. Rarely Grayness bequeaths Magick to a diverse lot, unwonted Spellweavers, who are not Drelvish, dwell in other realms, and connected to Drelvedom by wisps of Magick and threads of fate. Magick oft comes at high cost. Sometimes the unwonted gifts of Grayness are also unwanted. Albtrume . . .

In Three Hundred Years of Death: The Egyptian Funerary Industry in the Ptolemaic Period, Maria Cannata provides a detailed survey of the organisation of the necropolises and the funerary workers, as well as their role in the practical aspects of the mummification, funeral, burial, and mortuary cult of the deceased, in Ptolemaic Egypt (332-30 BC). The author gathers together and synthesises hundreds of the original textual sources, as well as the relevant archaeological sources, on the organisation of the funerary industry and its practitioners, revealing important regional and chronological variations overlooked in studies focusing on a limited geographical area, a shorter timeframe, or a smaller group of documents.

This tome reprises deeds of characters from earlier stories including Deathquest to Parallan, Orb of Chalar, Death of Magick, Dawn of Magick, and Thirttene Friends and then depicts journeys of Donothor’s heroine Ravenna, daughter of sorceress Chalar and father known only as Nocerre. Ravenna spends idyllic early years among Dark Elves in Black Dragon’s Horn. The young red-haired elf learns tidbits of her nefarious father and searches for him. Her mother’s tainted reputation forces Ravenna to keep secret her skills of Magick. Both Magick and her formidable weaponry skills aid her journeys. Although powerful allies assist her search, she encounters untold obstacles and joins Donothor’s Rangers. The saga includes detailed accounts of events in Donothor’s greatest conflict, the Iron Mountains War. Ravenna travels many paths, finds unexpected friends, and encounters challenging foes.