Far more engrossing than the jacket copy would have you believe: Card’s story here is one that is both clever, original and highly engrossing. That being said, the links to Norse myth are tenuous more homage than template. As Rig, Heimdall gifts humanity with magic runes and is something a a father figure, while initially this comparison to Rigg doesn’t quite fit by novels end it could be argued that Rigg is ineffably tied to the fate of humanity. Heimdall’s prodigious sight is one of the reasons he was chosen to guard the Bifrost Bridge (the path between Midgard and Asgard) and is somewhat similar to Rigg’s own sight related ability to see the paths of the past. Rig is a less well known name of the Norse god Heimdall it is the name Heimdall goes by as he wanders Midgard, the tale of which is chronicled in the Lay of Rig.
He will be forced to question everything he thinks he knows, choose who to trust, and push the limits of his talent…or forfeit control of his destiny.My initial attraction to Pathfinder was based solely on the fact that the main character was named Rigg. Rigg’s birthright sets him on a path that leaves him caught between two factions, one that wants him crowned and one that wants him dead.
And when Rigg discovers that he has the power not only to see the past, but also to change it, his future suddenly becomes anything but certain. But when his father dies, Rigg is stunned to learn just how many secrets Father had kept from him-secrets about Rigg's own past, his identity, and his destiny. Only his father knows the truth about Rigg's strange talent for seeing the paths of people's pasts. From Orson Scott Card, the internationally bestselling author of Ender’s Game, comes the first novel in the Pathfinder trilogy, the riveting story of Rigg, a teenager who possesses a special power that allows him to see the paths of people’s pasts.
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