The Illearth War

Forty years after his initial, reluctant journey to the Land, the leper Thomas Covenant finds himself inexplicably summoned once more, leaving behind his 'real' world where only a scant few days have passed. The Land, however, has endured decades of hardship and escalating peril under the relentless malevolence of Lord Foul the Despiser. Foul now wields the dread Illearth Stone, an ancient artifact of immense evil, rendering the Lords' traditional magic impotent. High Lord Elena, daughter of Linden Avery, desperately turns to Covenant, the outcast believed to be the reincarnation of Berek Halfhand, for salvation. She implores him to embrace the potent, yet terrifying, white gold magic of his ring. Tormented by his own disbelief and the trauma of his previous experiences, Covenant must confront not only the overwhelming forces of Lord Foul but also his own profound self-loathing and the moral ambiguity of his power, as the fate of the Land hangs precariously in the balance.