Three of the Haighlei crewmen exit the ship and claim that the land that White Gryphon is part of their country. Amberdrake has identified the crewmen as members of the Haighlei Empire, a nation of all black people.
Some of the council members, Skandranon, Amberdrake, Judeth, and Tamsin, arrive on the dock and await the people to exit the ships. Kechara has been recruited by Judeth and is being used to communicate with the Silvers in White Gryphon. Later, there are ships spotted by a gryphon, and Skandranon is contacted using the city's mind connection, Kechara. Hadenalith is very upset about the interruption to his deeds and swears revenge on Amberdrake, and White Gryphon. The city does not have a jail, and his crimes are not severe enough for instant death, so the Silver Gryphons decide to exile him to the forests on one side of the city, presuming that the animals will take care of him.
Hadenalith is arrested while he is molding a woman to be his slave.
Judeth orders for the arrest of this man, Hadanelith, through her position as the leader of the newly established Silver Gryphons. Amberdrake as one of the council members brings up a man that is practicing as a kestra'chern illegally. The Cataclysm has led to mage storms that causes magic to be unstable, meaning that many that had the mage ability have lost their powers, or are seriously weakened. The council members consist of Skandranon, Amberdrake, Cinnabar, Judeth, and Snowstar. The city has established a council to control all aspects of the city life. The city is named based on its shape, a large gryphon preparing for flight over the ocean, and the white gryphon, Skandranon. They have traveled very far and have reached the ocean, and now have established a city called, White Gryphon. The k'Leshya tribe of the Kaled'a'in nation, along with the gryphons, some hertasi, tervardi, and kyree, have fled from the gates that they escaped before the Cataclysm from the end of the mage wars. The story takes place ten years after the end of The Black Gryphon. The deaths of Urtho and Ma'ar bring an end to the Mage Wars-but also to a great many other things, as the twin rebounds from so many undone spells collide, bringing about the Cataclysm. Ma'ar and his ruthless tactics erode the army, bit by bit, until he is poised to strike at the Tower itself.īefore this can happen, a betrayed, dying Urtho provides Skandranon with one final task: take a weapon deep into the heart of Ma'ar's power, and end it, once and for all. One thing is certain, however: Urtho is losing the war by inches. The increasing pressure brings old traumas out into the open for Winterhart, and allows Zhaneel to grow beyond them. Amberdrake and the other kestra'chern struggle with their lascivious reputation among the ranks even as the weight of collective despair increases. The gryphons bristle at being used as little more than tools of war by uncaring human officers, and at being held hostage by Urtho's grasp over their ability to bear young. Skandranon is on the front lines as part of the forces of Urtho, the Mage of SIlence, while Amberdrake serves as morale support back in the camp underneath Urtho's Tower, practicing his kestra'chern arts with the soldiers to keep them from cracking under the strain of the war.Īs Ma'ar inexorably pushes back Urtho's forces, Skandranon and Amberdrake, along with Zhaneel, an outcast and the first gryfalcon, and Winterhart, a close-lipped Trondi'irn, face struggles within the camp as well as without.
It primarily follows Skandranon Rashkae, the titular Black Gryphon, and Amberdrake, a Kaled'ai'in kestra'chern, through their experiences during the end of the Mage Wars initiated by Kiyamvir Ma'ar. The Black Gryphon is the first book in the Mage Wars trilogy, and the only one to take place during the Mage Wars proper.
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