Regnak Wanderer (Rek for short) an ex-army officer and natural ' baresark', seeing a war brewing, resigned his commission because he lacked the courage to risk his life and took to a life of wandering. The novel follows the stories of two men who find their destiny at Dros Delnoch. However, given the odds, no-one truly believes that Delnoch can be held. If the fortress can hold the Nadir horde for three months, the Drenai general Magnus Woundweaver might be able to gather and train a Drenai army.
The fate of the Drenai hinges on the defence of Dros Delnoch. Dros Delnoch is the greatest fortress in the world, a narrow pass guarded by six high walls and a great keep, but under Abalayn its complement of defenders has been reduced to less than 10,000 men under the leadership of an unfit General.
The Drenai leader Abalayn is trying to negotiate new treaties with Ulric, but war is brewing and an over 500,000 strong Nadir army marches on the fortress of Dros Delnoch, gateway to the Drenai heartlands. The tribal Nadir people have been united for the first time by the great warleader Ulric, who has forged a massive empire in the North. The novel was included as part of the pack and acted as a form of copy protection for the game. In 1984 Century's computer software division, Century Software produced a game for the ZX Spectrum computer based on the novel also called Legend. It was accepted by Century Publishing late in 1982. Encouraged, Gemmell set to work rewriting the book that would become known as "Legend". However, in 1980, a friend of Gemmell's read the manuscript and told him that the story had potential. In the end, he was found not to have cancer after all and he forgot about the book, which he claims wasn't very good anyway. The fortress and its attackers, the Nadir, were metaphors for him and the cancer. He was being tested for cancer, and to take his mind off it he tried writing a book, which he called "Against the Hordes". Gemmell got the idea for the book in 1976.
It was the first novel by Gemmell, and in The Drenai saga. It established him as a major fantasy novelist and created the character of Druss, who would appear in several subsequent books. Legend is a fantasy novel by British writer David Gemmell, published in 1984.
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