Terciel and ElinorIn the Old Kingdom, a land of ancient and often terrible magics, eighteen year old orphan Terciel learns the art of necromancy from his great aunt Tizanael. But not to raise the Dead, rather to lay them to rest. He is the Abhorsen in Waiting, and Tizanael is the Abhorsen, the latest in a long line of people whose task it is to make sure the Dead do not return to Life. Across the Wall in Ancelstierre, a steam age country where magic usually does not