Shortly afterwards, King Elias's brother Josua mysteriously disappears, and the new reign begins to curdle in suspicion and discontent.
Shortly after the death of the great King John, his son Elias, whom many say is a pawn of the evil cleric Pryrates, takes the throne. Simon is thrilled when luck turns his way and he finds himself apprenticed to the good Doctor Morgenes, the castle's healer and wizard, after which Simon alternates his time between his menial chores and learning to read and write, under instruction by the doctor. Simon, a fourteen-year-old kitchen boy and servant in the great castle Hayholt, muddles his way through the daily routines of castle drudgery in the last days of the long reign of King John Presbyter. Caught in the struggle, Simon is forced to flee as best he can, and the young man soon finds himself taking part in adventures he had only dreamed of. Elias, driven by his evil advisor, moves to eliminate his brother Josua. When King John Presbyter dies and his son Elias ascends the throne, the way opens for a long-dormant evil to enter the realm. Simon is an ordinary scullery boy who is taken under the tutelage of Morgenes.
The latest of these is king John Presbyter, who is dying as the story opens. However, the spell gave the remaining Sithi time to flee to Aldheorte forest, where they continued to live in secrecy.ĭuring the five hundred years that followed the fall of Asu'a, six different kings ruled in the castle built on the Sithi ruins, called Hayholt. Ineluki, the King's younger son, wove terrible magic at the end with five of his servants and there they and Asu'a were destroyed. The remaining Sithi withdrew to Asu'a and there awaited the end. The Hernystiri were the only ones who stood by the Sithi in the final battle where both armies were destroyed. Unfortunately the Gardenborn suffer from a severe allergy to iron and even with their magics and their own iron-hard witchwood weapons, they were beaten back, one after the other. Then the Rimmersmen came with iron and to them the Gardenborn were devils and demons, to be killed on sight. The Sithi also had great friendship with the Hernystiri of the west. In the greatest of them all, Asu'a, the High King ruled.īut Men began to prosper and advance and the sea empire of Nabban rose and fell without it disturbing the Gardenborn. Three cities were also given to the Tinukeda'ya one was sea-bound Jhina't'senei which went to the Niskies and the other two were deep under the earth which went to the Dwarrows, the smaller tribe of the Tinukeda'ya. The Norns and their fell queen Utuk'u, eldest and most powerful of the Gardenborn, removed to the north of the world, taking the two northernmost cities for their own. The Hikeda'ya were of the opinion that the mortals had to be wiped out or driven from Osten Ard. The Zida'ya were content to leave Men alone to go their own way, as long as they didn't trespass in Sithi lands. Their main subject of argument was the appearance of Men or mortals in Osten Ard. The other two tribes also split ways, making a pact at Sesuad'ra, the Stone of Farewell. The first two tribes had ruled the third in their ancestral home called the Garden, but in Osten Ard the Tinukeda'ya went their own way, developing into two separate tribes, the seafaring Niskies and the earth-dwelling Dwarrows. In Osten Ard the Gardenborn prospered and they built nine great cities of tremendous beauty. They were three tribes, the Zida'ya (commonly called Sithi), the Hikeda'ya (also called Norns) and the Tinukeda'ya (known as Dwarrows and Niskies). Thousands of years ago the long-lived Gardenborn arrived in the land, fleeing a cataclysm. The history of the world and the races present in Osten Ard have a great impact on the current events in the books. The story takes place on the fictional fantasy world of Osten Ard. The saga follows a young man named Simon as he is caught up in an epic adventure. The Dragonbone Chair is a fantasy novel by American writer Tad Williams, the first in his Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy.
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