{"product_id":"the-paths-of-the-dead","title":"The Paths of the Dead","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe long-awaited sequel to The Phoenix Guards and Five Hundred Years After  Two hundred years after Adrons Disaster  in which Dragaera City was accidentally reduced to an ocean of chaos by an experiment in wizardry gone wrong  the Empire isnt what it used to be. Deprived at a single blow of their Emperor  of the Orb that is the focus of the Empires power  of their capital city with its Impe-rial bureaucracy  and of a great many of their late fellow citizens  the surviving Dragaerans have been limping through a long Interregnum  bereft even of the simple magic and sorcery they were accustomed to use in everyday life.  Now the descendants and successors of the great ad-venturers Khaavren  Pel  Aerich  and Tazendra are growing up in this seemingly diminished world  con-vinced  like their elders  that the age of adventures is over and nothing interesting will ever happen to them. They are  of course  wrong . . . .  For even deprived of magic  Dragaerans fight  plot  and conspire as they breathe  and so do their still-powerful gods. The enemies of the Empire prowl at its edges  in-scrutable doings are up at Dzur Mountain...and  unex-pectedly  a surviving Phoenix Heir  young Zerika  is discoveredsetting off a chain of swashbuckling events that will remake the world yet again.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44986213466165,"sku":"ByrdShop_0312864787","price":27.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780312864781.jpg?v=1770892540","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-paths-of-the-dead","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}