A sweeping epic dream series from worldwide bestselling author Raymond E Feist. Featuring perhaps one of the most interesting characters and situations ever developed in the genre, The Conclave of Shadows guarantees to become among the great all-time classics in the field.

Among the Orosini tribe, every boy must undergo the original manhood ritual in order to understand his place in the universe and find out his manhood name. Kielianapuna must survive around the remote control mountain peak of Shatana about Talon from the Metallic Hawk Higo until the gods offer him his vision. But Kieli has already waited for four days and nights, and now he is cold, lonely, despairing, and very, very tired…

When he is woken with the terrifying feeling of sharp claws piercing his epidermis and finds a rare sterling silver hawk upon his arm, it really is such a disorientating minute that he is not sure whether it has actually happened, or whether it had been a vision.

Returning to his home, nameless and still a child, Kieli stumbles upon devastation. His village is being burned, his people slaughtered. Though it means certain loss of life, Kieli throws himself into the battle…

Against all of the odds, he survives, alone of all Orosini, who have been cut down where they stand: every last guy, female and child.

A distant tone of voice echoes in his mind’s eye: Rise up and become a talon for your people…

The visitation of the bird on Shatana Higo was indeed his naming vision. He is a boy known as Kielianapuna no more. Now he’s Talon of the Metallic Hawk, a guy who must avenge the murder of his people, whatever that might take…