From the first appearances of Roger Zelazny's short fiction in the early 1960s—remarkably original stories such as the memorable A Rose for Ecclesiastes, many of which are now recognized as classics—it was clear that a dazzling new genius had burst in
The noble and magical aelven were riven by war when a rogue clan embraced a forbidden source of magic: the drinking of blood. In the bitter fighting that ensued, the vampiric Clan Darkshore were cast out of the aelven and driven across the Ebon Mountains.