Four hundred light years from Earth Kregen is a marvelous world peopled bywonderful beings filled with light and clamor and furor of life lived to thehilt. But ... » 

Four hundred light years from Earth Kregen is a marvelous world peopled bywonderful beings filled with light and clamor and furor of life lived to thehilt. But Kregen has its darker side where horror and terror batten oninnocent people where sorceries rend reason where injustice denies light.Here in the unforgiving yet rewarding world of Kregen struggling throughdisaster and triumph Dray Prescot has made his home. He has acquired a numberof titles and estates but now the people of the island empire of Vallia whichhas been ripped into shreds by ambitious and mercenary invaders have called onhim to lead them to freedom as their emperor. Reluctant to accept the imperiumhe shoulders the burden because rightly or wrongly he sees this as the lesserevil... The Jikaida Cycle contains A Life for Kregen A Sword for Kregen AFortune for Kregen A Victory for Kregen «