For Matt, Lyn, and Meg, who've known it longest.
For my children, who have grown up with this book.
Every lesson you have taught me is within its pages.
And lastly, for a dog named Merlin, the truest friend
a lonely teenager could've ever wanted.
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"This my parable so fleeting, too swift for the dull shall be,
Ere yet they may seize its meaning, from before their face 'twill flee
As a hare that a sound hath started, yea metal behind the glass,
And a blind man's dream yield visions that as swift from the eye do pass."
-Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzival
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Seer sights the rightful way
Traveler leads, shines bright as day
Physic carves and guards the path
Mender rights what was wronged by wrath.
Aspects stand and bear the mark
Before the Vacant, Hungry Dark
'Til Guides return to shepherd men
Until the Prince comes once again
-First Verse from a common Wielder nursery rhyme.
-Second verse discovered by Matthew Schwan, summer, 1998
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Glassblade
FantasyFor generations, the noble and ancient Schwan family kept a secret and silent watch over the city of Tacoma. Then, in one night of bloodshed and fire at the dawn of the new millennium, they were gone. Thirteen years later, nobody knows whom is respo...
