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	Bodyguard of Lightning by Stan Nicholls Peace seldom reigned unopposed in Maras-Dantia. In a land of many races, conflict was inevitable. But there had always been a measure of tolerance...until a new race spilled into our land, shattering the balance. They were called humans.... And with their contempt for the cultures they encountered—that of dwarf and elf, goblin and dragon and all the others—they brought destruction, raping the land of its resources, bleeding it of its magic. Soon war erupted, and now we orcs are never far from the eye of the storm. One of the few elder races who do not possess magic, we make up for the lack with a ferocious lust for warfare. And though humans look on us with hatred and fear, calling us monsters and slaying us like beasts in the fields, we are the champions—the creatures destined to win peace for all. A fast moving, action packed epic that for the first time tells the story of fantasy’s traditional enemy, giving orcs their own motives, heroes and destiny. An epic quest that takes orc warband leader Stryke and his warriors on a journey to secure five artifacts of power with which they hope the can buy their freedom but which actually hold the key to everything and the explanation for the sudden incursion of mankind into the world of the elder races, an incursion that is leeching the magic out of the land of Maras-Dantia.
	Legion of Thunder by Stan Nicholls War is throwing the land of Maras Dantia into chaos. As the armies gather and the magic leaks away from the land Stryke and his warband of orcs are on the run from everyone; from the orcs that Jennasta has sent after them and from the humans who will kill any orc on sight. Stryke’s quest for the artifacts that will secure the destiny of the orcs and, if they but knew it, all the races old and new in Maras Dantia, has never been more urgent and more difficult. As the net closes in and his troopers fall one by one to foes that even they never imagined in their worst dreams, time is running out for Stryke, for all orcs and for Maras Dantia.
	Warriors of the Tempest by Stan Nicholls The third volume in Nicholls's critically acclaimed fantasy finds Maras Dantia drowning in war. Stryke, head of the renegade orcs, and his warband have found the long-lost relic they need--but still do not know how to use it. And, while they try to figure it out, enemies hunt them from every corner. Worse yet, the three sisters are close to forming an alliance that will overturn history. Time is running out to save the world. Nicholls's masterworks are the first to tell the story from the other side--from the point of view of the orcs, the villains of Lord of the Rings.