Fate of the Dwarf Lords

The Nameless Dwarf begins a new chapter of his life in the up-and-coming town of Brink, now that he has worked out his penance and resettled his people in Arnoch, their ancestral citadel.

He has everything a dwarf could possibly wish for-a gym, a beer hall, and a bawdy house across the road. But then a blood-stained dwarf staggers into town with a message of doom:

Arnoch has sunk beneath the waves, its last line of defense against the attack of a five-headed dragon.

The one slender hope remaining to the dwarves lies in their distant past: the dwarf lords, who had been created for perils such as this. But for centuries, they have been in exile on Thanatos, a world in which every life form has one purpose-to kill.

With time running out for Arnoch, Nameless must find the dwarf lords and persuade them to come home.

But before that, he first has to survive them.

"Derek Prior always produces masterpieces of storytelling, with great characters full of life, relentless plots, and gripping and intense fight scenes." Mitchell Hogan

"Like Bernard Cornwell on 'shrooms!" Dinorah Wilson

Internationally bestselling and award winning author Derek Prior excels in fast-paced, high stakes epic fantasy adventure stories in which good ultimately triumphs, but always at a cost.

Taking familiar fantasy tropes as a point of departure, Prior expands upon them to explore friendship, betrayal, loyalty and heroism in worlds where evil is an ever-present reality, magic is both a curse and a blessing, and characters are tempered in battle.

Winner of best fantasy novel 2012 (The Nameless Dwarf: The Complete Chronicles)

Fantasy Faction semifinalist for the SPFBO 2018 (Ravine of Blood and Shadow)