Druss arrives at the shrine hoping to find the jewels but is unable to do so before the Gothir arrive, and so he helps four Nadir tribes defend the shrine under the guidance of a Gothir-trained Nadir soldier called Talisman. As he travels to the shrine of Nadir hero Oshikai, the Gothir send a force of 2,000 men to destroy it. To help him Druss travels to the land of the Nadir where a mystic has told him there are gems that can heal any wound. In the course of the attempt on his life his friend Klay is shot in the spine with a crossbow bolt, leaving him paralyzed and mortally wounded. Owing to a prophecy that the King made, Druss must lose a tournament when he refuses to do this men are hired to kill him. He tells how he and his friend Sieben travelled to the land of the Gothir and how he became involved in the political affairs there. The novel begins during the events in the book Legend during the defense of the fortress Dros Delnoch from the Nadir, Druss begins to tell a young warrior a story from his past. The book details the life of the character Druss and is set chronologically after the main events in The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend but prior to events in Legend. It is also one of three stories compiled into a single collection in Drenai Tales Volume Three, along with Winter Warriors and Hero in the Shadows.
The book follows on from the novel The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend and was the seventh book to be released in the Drenai Series. The Legend of Deathwalker is a heroic fantasy novel written by British author David Gemmell, it was first published in 1996 and was reprinted in 1999.
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