THE PRINCE OF BRIM-LOCH TUM is simple rustic fantasy, vintage in bearing and romantic in scope. Set in a world of Elves and Men and Little People, it tells the lives and histories of many—both of the evil, and the good—who become embroiled in the struggle for mastery over a rich and diverse land called Cen-Tuin. Seven nations have covenanted together against a common enemy. Being thus bound, they find themselves not only at war with the Black Flower, but in conflict among themselves as well.As the story opens, two children have been born on the same calendar day—Storr Mason of the Minnekens, and Llam of the Mariner kings. On the same day twenty years hence, each will inherit the Opalescent Stone of his ancestors, becoming the federal head of his people. Will the Evil One find a way to defraud them of their inheritances? When the time comes for their coronation, will either of them still possess breath to draw or sense to wield a sword?The final wreckage of Cen-Tuin dawns at last with the rising of the misbegotten Prince of Brim-Loch Tum. Who is this prince? And who must be measured against him in the end?BOOK FOUR—TENDRILS OF THE BLACK FLOWER: Sait Agatha Veld was first to give her nation over to the Evil One. Being a transterpreter, Agatha was able to turn darkness into light, smuggling two illegal tribes into Cen-Tuin and calling it legal. Wraylan La’Brille was second to throw away his soul and his people to the Black Flower. Born High Lord Viceroy to a nation of spineless Scyphotanians, he proved unserviceable to the powers of Brim-Loch Tum. But there was an old Wolf serving in the King’s palace, full of treason and duplicity—an agent full worthy the trust of the Evil One. The Alpha is a Goblin who was once the noble Lord of the Plains Elves. Aelph is the last to have cast his Covenant Stone before the powers of Brim-Loch Tum—gaining nothing he longs for, and losing everything he loves. These are the Tendrils of the Black Flower, sent forth to do the will of Brim-Loch Tum. And what is that will, but to defraud two rightful heirs of their inheritances, or at a minimum, steal away their very lives and mental powers—thereby obtaining entitlement to rule the world.