DemonWars Saga Volume 2: Mortalis - Ascendance - Transcendence - Immortalis (The DemonWars Saga)

by R. A. Salvatore

  To count their hopes in fingers’ toil

  And measure worth in corporeal coil.

  What wretched fools these mortals be

  Ignoring promise of eternity,

  Denying reason’s just reward,

  Defending riches with the sword.

  Averting eyes from higher light,

  Existing in fear of eternal night.

  How pitiful are those lacking the sense

  To accept the call of divine recompense!

  What joke it would be to beings of reason

  If flesh and blood proves the only season,

  If divinity’s call is an outrageous lie,

  And heaven sits not above earthly sky.

  If consciousness falls to black emptiness

  And maggots claim souls as part of their mess,

  If all of our reason to brightest lights shine,

  In false perception of all that’s divine.

  So tell me not of mere mortal coil

  Denying the hopes in worm-holed soil.

  I’ll fly my way on angels borne

  While faithless wallow in mud, forlorn.

  On this day and from my pen the answer to dead Calvin of Bri-Onnaire, whose reason clouded his soul. This answer is for the living. Calvin found his answers long ago.

  —BROTHER NIKLOS SANTELLA,

  ST. PRECIOUS ABBEY, PALMARIS

  Del Rey Books by R. A. Salvatore

  THE DEMONWARS SAGA

  The Demon Awakens

  The Demon Spirit

  The Demon Apostle

  Mortalis

  Ascendance

  Transcendence

  Immortalis

  THE CHRONICLES OF YNIS AIELLE

  Echoes of the Fourth Magic

  The Witch’s Daughter

  Bastion of Darkness

  THE CRIMSON SHADOW

  The Sword of Bedwyr

  Luthien’s Gamble

  The Dragon King

  STAR WARS

  Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones

  Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Vector Prime