A thousand years before, lead by the Nines, the armies swept their shadows across the globe, decimating all in their paths right to the very foothills of mount Shagrii. It was there that the armies were obliterated by Shagrii herself, it was there that their reign of terror ended. A thousand years on, evil hides in the shadows as it prepares to returned to the lands once again, to bring forth its black, metal beasts of war and terror once more. Set in a fabulous world scarred by long forgotten battles, Armies of the Nines tells the tale of a boy who in losing his family, discover a world that he had never imagined. ''NjSternbergheyze's epic fantasy overturns the expectations of readers and then goes on to tell the story of both good and evil in a richly imagined ancient world.'' ''Fantasy literature has never shied away from grandeur, but the sheer mind-boggling scope of this epic will have you turning page after page.''