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First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Rolf Hynasson was planning on becoming a magician and using his gifts to help the Empire. While in the capital of Ponticar, he finds himself suddenly an outcast, running for his life from the most powerful family in the city. Aided by a mysterious magician named Dark, Rolf soon learns to survive by using his wits as well as his magic. While the Empire is plunged into war with a rival, Rolf embarks on a journey that teaches him to unleash his true power. The Scent of Magic is the first volume in the Ponticar Series.

The Red Tears plague has ravaged the nation of Halsbren, whittling away its population unto a shadow of its former glory. Suddenly hope appears when a race of diminutive Spriggans, once equally decimated by the plague, offers them the cure. It will come with the one who bears the Spriggish Sword.What should be a nation's salvation, suddenly turns into a race for survival when a local criminal syndicate gets word of the cure's impending arrival and seeks to steal it for themselves. As parties vie for control of the cure, fate turns to one young girl who might be the key to everything.

Long known as the world's leading medical hypnotist, Milton H. Erikson developed a strategic approach - for individuals, couples and families - that uses hypnotic-therapy skills in observing and motivating people. His ideas and procedures have been widely used to sharpen the techniques of therapists of many different schools. Jay Haley provides a look at Dr. Erickson's theories in practice, through description and excerpts from Erickson's case studies.--From back cover.

Exactornoun, \ig-ˈzak-tər\Mercenary.A contractor that works directly for the Jasian Enclave, but holds no such religious or political affiliation to it.Wetwork, theft, espionage, and sabotage. You use an Exactor.Political extractions, humanitarian missions, exorcisms... You use and Exactor.They are a collection of eclectic personalities with such diversely unique skill sets that the Church has no choice but to utilize them.Exactors are morally gray areas. They allow the Jasian Enclave the leverage necessary to use that which it publically abstains from.Should an Exactor be seen, or caught, the Church can and will deny any such affiliation. The Exactor will be left to their own fate, or worse, if they are caught, will become the next target...Within these pages, are two novellas, and two short stories, from two different authors, that tell tales in direct relation to Exactors and their role in the theocratic sovereignty known as the Jasian Enclave.Be not fooled by their name, for the Enclave is anything but small, and they wield the power to topple nations...We are the Exactors.

As the Mandragora Umbraticum attempts to eradicate the ancient Pononga warriors in preparation for a more Easternized, trade-friendly government, Stormwind finds himself unexpectedly nominated as accuser and investigator of the corruption within the Pononga themselves.

A Purist's life is hard - and often brief - in the world of Kuldarr. But Aodhfin Bray learns to face death head on and never waver, trusting in his faith to see him through. Recently field promoted to Purist Commander after the brutal slaughter of his friend, Barodin Simonis, Bray becomes the leader to a band of light-hearted, misfit mercenaries known as the Exactors.Bray is soon tasked with his first mission. He must travel to the distant port town of Sentinel's Barrow and inform the bishop of his son, Barodin's, demise. But in the shadows of that peaceful port lurks a plot that is both deceptive and deadly. Faced with a bloody murder that threatens to destroy everything that holds meaning in his devout life, Bray vows to solve the case and beat the enemy at their own twisted game - or die trying.

You're the only other one that knows that we have the real orb. Those were the fated words that befell one of the guardians of the Orb of Night right before his tragic end. Its loss will herald a war like none seen for over seven hundred winters. Can the adventures retrieve the Orb of Night, and survive the crushing torrent of THE WILD TIDE?

For thousands of winters the war has been over. The fires of hatred that once burned bright have diminished to little more than ash and dust. But for one, those ancient struggles still burn strong. Then there is Stormwind. A whimsical, wandering Elf, who just happens to stumble into this ancient conflict. Driven by his compassion for a beautiful woman named Carmella, he agrees to rescue her son from those that seek to use the child to reignite the long dead war. Will he become the hero that everyone hopes he is, or will the trial prove to great for the self-proclaimed vagabond with little purpose?