The Mage (Mage Sequence, # 1)

It is another Time, on another World ... a world of Magic ... on this world, over sixteen centuries ago, a vast civilization once thrived ... Hyperborea ... and within this ancient and powerful civilization, a great Battle-Mage known as Eddas Ayar lived. The mightiest of the Hyperborean Battle-Mages. But now, ages later, the Hyperboreans are long gone, their greatest buildings are little more than broken rubble poking out from centuries of overgrowth. New civilizations have arisen--and new peoples. And within his tomb beneath the earth, the spirit of Eddas Ayar, held within an enchanted crystal vial, slept on ... until, one day, a half-elf thief entered the ancient tomb, intending to rob it of it's treasures. Eddas, rising from the sleep of ages, steals her body, and enters the world ...