Witch World
Author: Andre Norton
 
The doomed land of Estcarp stood alone, menaced from the north and the south, and from the sea to the west. Only because they were the heirs to an age-old knowledge were the dark people of her fields, her cities and her towers able to hold back the press. Theirs might be a losing cause, but they would go down fighting to the last blow of the sword from the last living Guardsman, the last blasting weapon man or woman could lay hand upon.
Alone among the nations of the continent Estcarp wielded a strange and fearful weapon, and the hatred and dread of her neighbours was founded on that very weapon - magic. To Alizon in the north, Karsten in the south, the power of the witches was evil. But the terror that threatened from the west was an alien evil from a source unknown.
 
COVER ILLUSTRATION BY PHILIP CASTLE
 
TANDEM BOOKS 1970 EDITION
SBN: 426050126