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Book Review of The Morgaine Saga: Gate of Ivrel / Well of Shiuan / Fires of Azeroth (Morgaine Cycle, Bks 1-3)

The Morgaine Saga: Gate of Ivrel / Well of Shiuan / Fires of Azeroth (Morgaine Cycle, Bks 1-3)
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The Gates were relics of a lost era. The Union Science Bureau surmised that they had once linked whole networks of civilizations throughout the galaxy-an empire ruled by a ruthless race known as the qhal. This qhal empire spanned both Space and Time, for their Gates warped time, enabling qhal travelers to step from point to point across light years unaged. It was even possible to travel into the future. However intervention in backtime could affect entire worlds and civilizations, could change the course of galactic history, could destroy empires and possibly implode time itself...and this is what the Science Bureau believed happened...sometime, somewhere in the unreachable past, an arrogant power-drunk qhal had done the unthinkable, and warped the very fabric of space and time.

Morgaine pale in coloring and tall aas the tallest men, it seems clear that this mysterious traveler us a descendeant of the long vanished qhal. Aided by a single warrior honor-bound to serve her, it is her mission to travel from world to world sealing the ancient Gates whose very existence threatens the integrity of the universe. But will she have the power to follow her quest to its eventual conclusion -- the Ultimate Gate or the end of time itself?