Lord of the Isles

The Lord of the Isles series is a well known series of epic fantasy books. It is comprised of a 6 books in total, which were released between the years 1997 and 2004. The series is written by a popular American novelist named David Drake. Other than being the largest epic fantasy series by author Drake, this series is also famous for depicting the elements of the technology of the medieval era and the Sumerian religion. David Drake has written altogether 9 books in this series, of which the first six form the main series while the last three are clubbed together as a trilogy series called Crown of the Isles. The main characters in all the 9 books consist of Garric or-Reise, Sharina os-Reise, Ilna os-Kenset, Liane bos-Benliman, Cashel or-Kenset, and Tenoctris. In addition to all these lead characters, a number of other important secondary characters as also depicted by Drake that keep recurring in the plots from time to time. As per the description of author Drake, the stories of each and every book centers around the lives of 4 youths hailing from a tiny village located on an island in a fictional world called Isles. One of those youths is Garris or-Reise, who discovers at the start of the series that he is directly related to the last king that ruled Isles around a millennium back. During the rule of the king, Carrus, a stranger had risen that fueled magic and allowed certain sections to use spells. This resulted in the shattering of the nations’ cohesion, the killing of Carrus, and eventually sinking the Yole island. Throughout the series, author Drake has shown how Garris overcomes all the obstacles and claims the throne of the Isles. The novels also depict how Garris tries to unite all the islands once again. Throughout the journey of Garris and his companions, numerous supernatural and physical foes challenge them, but get overcome by them. Drake has described the basic storyline of many novels as the characters getting separated, taken to distant periods of parallel universes in time by hostile entities, which they defeat and reunite. Magic is described in the books through the use of a now-obsolete language known as Old Script.