Her guardian, Norina the Truthken, is an air elemental able to see through any lie, yet she is blind to dangerous truths about both her half-giant charge and Paladin treachery. Laurie Marks Elemental Logic series introduced readers to the realm of Shaftal, an intricately imagined land whose people operate within the boundaries of.

Karis, a half-giant blacksmith, has tremendous earth powers that might defeat the Sainnites-if she weren't addicted to a potent, deadly drug that steals her will. Another fire elemental, Zanja na'Tarwein, is the Ashawala'i Speaker, but she cannot convince her own people of the full danger of the Sainnites. The fire elemental Emil is a Paladin, a Shaftali soldier-scholar who is about to embark on his most desired studies when the invading Sainnites capture the capitol and kill the wizard ruler, leaving no heir now Emil must become a war commander in the remnants of the Shaftali army. In the world of Fire Logic, the rare individuals born with magic talent are known as elementals, because they possess the power of fire, earth, air, or water. Marks's Fire Logic, an original, skillfully written, powerfully imagined novel of war and intrigue, a high fantasy that owes little to Tolkien's trilogy, though both are intelligent, adult works that may also be enjoyed by younger readers. Among the rare and glorious successes is Laurie J. Much of it is derivative and badly written some is well written and singular. Now, by water logic, the logic of patterns repeated, of laughter and music, the lost must be found-or the found may forever be lost.In the wake of the successful movie adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, bookstores have been flooded with new high fantasy. After swearing to protect and help Karis, Zanja joins former scholar and seer Emil Paladin's South Hill irregulars.

Zanja na’Tarwein, the crosser of boundaries, born in fire and wedded to earth, has fallen under the ice. The giant earth witch and smith, Karis, addicted to the will-sapping and sensation-destroying smoke, for some reason rouses herself to rescue and heal Zanja. Before memory, before recorded history, something happened that now must be remembered. But some cannot forget their losses, and some cannot imagine a place for themselves in an enemy land.

Readers will discover inside Water Logic that amid assassinations, rebellions, and the pyres of too many dead, a new government has formed in Shaftal-a government of soldiers and farmers, scholars and elemental talents, all weary of war and longing for peace. Laurie Marks’ Elemental Logic series introduced readers in Fire Logic to the realm of Shaftal, an intricately imagined land whose people operate within the boundaries of their basic natures-here defined as logics-which sometimes bequeath them with access to magical, elemental powers and sometimes embroil them in unsolvable internal conflicts. The Elemental Logic series continues with its third novel in the series, Water Logic, where the patterns of history are made and unmade.

Fire logic by laurie j marks