Darkling (1st edition)

In a world convulsed by seasons of terror and by nightmarish phantoms, Maradek abandons the security of his small northern tribal home to search for his father, Afurad. Armed only with a bow and guided by a psychic aptitude for scanning life forms, Maradek is joined by a hermit plainsmanand by a strange bestial anomaly who can communicate solely through telepathic subspeech. Directed by primitive divination abilities, Maradek and his colleagues journey southward through death-haunted realms of cosmic alienage until they discover and challenge the unnatural agents who are threatening to consume their world.