The Legend of Deathwalker is a heroic fantasy novel written by British author David Gemmell, it was first published in 1996[2] and was reprinted in 1999.

It is also one of three stories compiled into a single collection in Drenai Tales Volume Three, along with Winter Warriors and Hero in the Shadows.

Owing to a prophecy that the King made, Druss must lose a tournament; when he refuses to do this men are hired to kill him.

In the course of the attempt on his life his friend Klay is shot in the spine with a crossbow bolt, leaving him paralyzed and mortally wounded.

The book then comes back to the present day where the reader learns that Druss has fallen in combat in the defense of Dros Delnoch.