Anthony, Piers

After the disappearance of Good Magician Humfrey's son, Hugo, six characters--including Hugo's blind wife, a couple of storm-spirits, a cursed girl, Demon Xanth's son, and an outlaw--set forth on quests which reveal secrets about their role in the world.

At age 25 Bink was exiled from the magic land of Xanth because he had no magic spell that was observable to his people. But both the good genie and the magic wall chart insisted that he did. How could he prove he had magic?.

Zane belongs to a world in which the scientific revolution has been followed by the revolution of magic, and he is thrust into the role of death.

Rather than give in to the Rajah's plans to have him marry, Mym, an Indian prince, agrees to assume the office of the Incarnation of War and wield the Red Sword that is the powerful symbol of the position.

Grieving over the loss of his loved ones, Norton agrees to become the Incarnation of Time.

Three women form a triumvirate and pursue a mysterious quest that takes them through numerous trials and their souls become the proving ground for eternal questions of good, evil, and divinity.

Niobe told her daughter Orb that she had been chosen for the role of the Incarnation of Nature--the Green Mother--who would marry Evil. Was the man she loved Satan?.

In twelfth-century France, Parry grows into a powerful sorcerer and then a powerful Inquisitor. Living in depravity, he ends his days at the gates of hell.