The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

Sybel has grown up alone on Eld Mountain, the heir to a line of wizards who gathered legendary creatures from across the world: a falcon, a boar, a lion, a cat, a dragon and others, all bound to her by the power of their names. She wants nothing more than to call one last great beast, until a young man named Coren arrives with an infant and asks her to raise the child, who is caught up in a war between rival kings. As the boy grows, the conflicts of the world below begin to reach Sybel's mountain, testing her power, her pride and her capacity for love and revenge. Patricia A. McKillip's novel won the World Fantasy Award in 1975.