the books making up the saga are : book one : warlord book two : children of ambros book three : circling birds of prey book four : the dawn of balance book five : light dancing on shadows book six : quenching the flames book seven : metamorphosis ver 2.1 0315 to my family and to my best friend ` our story begins in the year 1654 , in a place very far away from where we are now .