The True Bloods are in disarray, their alliance crumbling and their armies humbled by the forces of the <ST1:STREET w:st="on"><ST1:ADDRESS w:st="on">Black Road</ST1:ADDRESS></ST1:STREET>. Aeglyss, falling ever deeper into madness, casts a shadow across all. At the court of the High Thane, Anyara faces a savage struggle for survival against the <I>na'kyrim</I>'s possessed agent: Mordyn Jerain, the Shadowhand. <BR><BR>In the <ST1:PLACE w:st="on"><ST1:PLACENAME w:st="on">Glas</ST1:PLACENAME> <ST1:PLACETYPE w:st="on">Valley</ST1:PLACETYPE></ST1:PLACE>, Kanin, the embittered Horin-Gyre Thane, plots a desperate rising against the halfbreed. But ultimately it will be Orisian, Thane of a Blood that no longer exists, who must stand face to face with a darkly transcendent Aeglyss and make the sacrifice - of himself and others - required to end the threat he represents. <BR><BR>FALL OF THANES is the spectacular conclusion to the Godless World trilogy, a sweeping epic of war, politics and empire.