Rides a Dread Legion is a fantasy novel by Raymond E. Feist

Raymond E. Feist

Raymond Elias Feist is an American author who primarily writes fantasy fiction. He is best known for The Riftwar Cycle series of novels and short stories. His books have been translated into multiple languages and have sold over 15 million copies.- Biography :Raymond E...

. It is the first book in the The Demonwar Saga

The Demonwar saga

The Demonwar Saga is a series of fantasy novels by Raymond E. Feist.-Concept:In the fantasy novels of Feist, a Riftwar is war between two worlds that are connected by some sort of dimensionless gap . In Feist's invented history there are several riftwars. The first Riftwar between Midkemia and...

and was published in 2009. It is followed by At the Gates of Darkness

At the Gates of Darkness

At the Gates of Darkness is a 2010 fantasy novel by Raymond E. Feist, the second book of his Demonwar Saga and the 26th book in his Riftwar Cycle...

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Background

Rides a Dread Legion was first published in Australia and the United Kingdom at the beginning of March 2009. It was released in the United States at the end of March and in New Zealand in September of 2009. It has also been translated into Dutch

Dutch language

Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...

, Hungarian

Hungarian language

Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....

 and Czech

Czech language

Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide. The language was known as Bohemian in English until the late 19th century...

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Synopsis

Ten years after the cataclysmic events of Wrath of a Mad God, Midkemia

Midkemia

Midkemia is a fictional world created by a fantasy role-playing group and popularized by Raymond E. Feist where most of the Riftwar books take place...

 now faces a new danger thought buried in myth and antiquity.

A lost race of elves, the taredhel or 'people of the stars', have found a way across the universe to reach Midkemia. On their current home world, these elves are hard pressed by a ravaging demon horde, and what was once a huge empire has been reduced to a handful of survivors. The cornerstone of taredhel lore is the tale of their lost origins in the world they call simply 'Home', a place lost in the mists of time. Now they are convinced that Midkemia is that place, and they are coming to reclaim it. Ruthless and arrogant, the taredhel intend to let nothing stand in their way; but before long, Pug

Pug (fictional character)

Pug, also known as Milamber , is a fictional character appearing in the novels of Raymond E. Feist. He is the protagonist in Feist's first novel, and the first novel of the Riftwar Saga, Magician...

 and the Conclave realise that it's not necessarily the elves, but the demon horde pursuing them where the true danger lies. And hanging over Pug always is the prophecy that he will be doomed to watch everyone he loves die before him.

Reception

The Independent Weekly

The Independent Weekly

The Independent Weekly, established in September 2004, is an independent newspaper published and circulated in Adelaide, capital of South Australia...

stated that "despite the driving force of the book being a basic survival engine, there is enough brio to allow the reader to be entertained."