The Ruby Knight

The Ruby Knight
David Eddings

Book two of the classic ELENIUM trilogy. The quest for the jewel of life continues.Time is running out for the poisoned Queen Ehlana. If she is to be saved Sparhawk must find the only cure – a powerful artefact called the Bhelliom – before it’s too late.But finding the rose-shaped sapphire is no simple task. No one has set eyes upon it since it was lost in the heat of a legendary battle.To make matters worse, Sparhawk and his allies are not the only party questing to find the jewel.

Voyager

David Eddings

The Ruby Knight

The Elenium

Book Two

Copyright

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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 1990

Copyright © David Eddings 1990.

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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Source ISBN: 9780007127825

EbookEdition © JUNE 2010 ISBN 9780007375073

Version: 20-03-2015

Dedication

For Young Mike ‘put it in the car’

and for Peggy ‘what happened to my balloons’

Contents

Title Page (#ue49e88ba-301a-5a57-b293-2fd90b20d1d4)

Copyright

Dedication (#u6f15d265-2d14-563a-8294-21daa51b43e5)

Map

Prologue

It was in the twenty-fifth century when the hordes of…

Part One: Lake Randera

Chapter 1

It was well after midnight, and a dense grey fog…

Chapter 2

The fog was even thicker when they gathered in the…

Chapter 3

Sephrenia was tending a large, ugly-looking bruise on Berit’s upper…

Chapter 4

The castle of Baron Alstrom was situated on a rocky…

Chapter 5

The booming crash of boulders slamming against the walls of…

Chapter 6

‘We’ll need to go to the highest point in your…

Chapter 7

The toll bridge was narrow and in some disrepair. A…

Chapter 8

The ancient battlefield at Lake Randera in north central Lamorkand…

Chapter 9

Ulath walked over to where Tynian sat on the wet…

Part Two: Ghasek