please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from wikipedia or other free sources online hephaestus books represents a new publishing paradigm allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive relevant and informative books to date this content has been curated from wikipedia articles and images under creative commons licensing although as hephaestus books continues to increase in scope and dimension more licensed and public domain content is being added we believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge this particular book is a collaboration focused on raymond e feistmore info raymond elias feist born raymond e gonzales iii 1945 is an american author who primarily writes fantasy fiction he is best known for the riftwar cycle series of novels and short stories his books have been translated into multiple languages and have sold over 15 million copies