Mage Winds

The Mage Winds is a series of three novels called Winds of Fate, Winds of Change, and Winds of Fury in that order. They are by Mercedes Lackey.

The trilogy is about a woman named Elspeth and a man named Darkwind. In most of the first book it is alternating between the characters' lives, and Elspeth is getting ready to go on a journey to become a mage, and be the first of the new Herald-Mages. Darkwind is living his routine life in the k'Sheyna vale not wanting to ever see magic again after the death of his mother when the magic was being moved from one heartstone to the other. As the tale goes on Elspeth, in search of a teacher to teach her magery, she soon ends up very near Darkwind and meets him.

Mini-Dictionary

• Bonded - to be able to share minds, and be great friends
• Heartstone - a stone that is surrounded by a net of ley-lines and is a giant node, that is placed in a rock
• Herald-Mage - a Herald who is a mage
• Herald - one who is of great power, and is bonded to a white horse called a companion
• Ley-lines - similar to a river, a place where magic energy flows
• Mage - Wizard/Witch- levels of a mage— I-journeyman, II-master, III-adept
• Node - similar to a lake, a place where magic energy pools
• Vale - a very hot place that is like a tiny tropical place that is surrounded by a magical shield, and is kept up by a heartstone