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[email protected] Dedication: To Rosemary Hawley Jarman, A word-sorceress of the round world.
AUTHOR’S NOTE Concerning those other histories referred to in Delirium’s Mistress: The stories of Zhirek the Magician, and of Simmu who stole Immortality from the gods, and of the city Simmurad, are to be found in Death’s Master.
As are the stories of Narasen and her pact with Death, and of Kassafeh and hers. And of the dealings of Lylas, too.
The stories of Shezael the Half-Souled, of the poet Kazir and Ferazhin Flower-Born, of Sivesh, of Zorayas the witch-queen, and of Bakvi the Drin (and, too, of Azhrarn’s first meeting with the sun) are told in Night’s Master.