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The Novels
The world of Ul-Zaorith is one of thousands of years of history, politics, intrigue, adventure, trial and mystery.
Publications
The Prophet's Tale: Book One, Legend of the Quill is on the blocks for a publisher.
The first manuscript is completed, with chapter illustrations, maps and lexicon done by yours truly. Please contact me if you'd like to be added to the mailing list for updates about release, events and ordering.
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Look for an article entitled "Fantasy Realms" in the 2010 FEB/MAR issue of True Blue Spirit, as penned by yours truly.
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In September of 2010 I entered the 3-Day Novel Contest, for which I wrote the novel First Born, a stand-alone Ul-Zaorith novel following the story of Kathiz T'Kazan, a Muzina living with a curse. Look for this book in print later this year!
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| Ahd'ar'ohk ~ The Greatest Mage of All Time |
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| Kigäli Ebarät |
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The Prophet's Tale
~ a trilogy ~
Book One: The Legend of the Quill
Synopsis:
Legend of the Quill is the first instalment in the trilogy The Prophet's Tale. The trilogy deals with one of the major turning points in the history of the world, Ul-Zaorith. This period was especially chaotic for the western part of the planet, as magic reached unsupportable levels and contact with the distant Eastern Continent was only just beginning. Wars erupted that permanently changed the fate of the nations. Magics were created and employed that wrought havoc on the delicate balance of energy that governed the planet. The faith in deities had slipped and the people turned their hopes to mortal heroes.
The Prophet's Tale tells the story of Bimear Sasharr, called Saviour of the Free Nations. Legend of the Quill relates his rise to fame and his development of uncanny power as he strives to unite the five nations of the Western Continent against an unfamiliar assailant from the mysterious East. There is more at stake than the simple alliance of kings and governors or their preparations for war. There is an old prophecy from some eight-hundred years before, proclaimed by the Greatest Mage of All Time, that a Saviour would be found who could raise the Great Mage back to life at the time when the world needed him most. Faced with half-forgotten lore and very present danger, Sasharr begins his journey to save his people from enslavement. The most difficult task he will meet is trying to unlock the legendary power within him to break the lasting magics of the great Mage and fulfil the Legend of the Quill.
Book Two: The Battle of Heroes
Synopsis:
With the Legend of the Quill fulfilled and the Great Mage once again alive and shaping the form and future of the world, Sasharr and Kigäli prepare to bring their sides to the battlefield and decide by the sword whether or not the West will keep its freedom. Although Sasharr has the five monarchs of the Western Continent behind him, numbers do not always indicate a victor. Kigäli has managed to bring together some dangerous tools. The Demon Sarmin, his necromancer's theft of the dead, the Golems crafted for destruction and the seemingly omnipotent manipulations of Ali Dayi will have Sasharr and his warriors hard-pressed to survive let alone prevail. Still, the Battle of Heroes is underway, and the ancient legend of its Five Heroes will fall out to decide for once and for all between Bimear Sasharr and Kigäli Ebärat: Which is the Saviour and which the evil Man of Legend?
Book Three: Making of Legends
Synopsis:
Kigäli has taken his slave girl and fled back to his distant homeland by an extremely difficult portal spell. In his wake, Sasharr and the bedraggled remnants of his one glorious armies try to pick up the pieces and restore order and peace to the ravaged peoples of the West. With nothing more he can do to help in his homelands, Sasharr takes on the quest to follow Kigäli to the mysterious Eastern Continent and see if he can't find allies there that will prevent Kigäli from amassing more forces and returning in strength to finish what he had started. There's just one thing nagging at Sasharr - a Prophecy that has been growing within him for years and finally is reaching clarity. Kigäli holds a strong place in it, and the stakes are much greater than ever before. The Battle of Heroes was just a precursor - a wiping clean of the slate to prepare for an even bigger atrocity: The End of the World. It is coming... and Sasharr must become more than just the Saviour of the Free Peoples. It is time for him to become the Greatest Prophet of All Time and prepare the future so that it has a chance to survive the apocalypse. There's just one thing about martyrs... Someone always has to die to save those they wish to protect.
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| Caithnes |
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The Last Hero
~ a trilogy ~
Book One: The Age of the Obelisk
Synopsis:
Bimear Sasharr is a household name still, even after some thousand years has passed. However, while his spell of the Obelisk fulfilled its purpose and enlightened all those who looked upon it and made them true believers, there are some who have become twisted by their avid faith. The signs have been long watched for and awaited, the moments counted until the sages were sure that the Age had come. The zealous faith in Sasharr's last Prophecy lead to the enslavement of the entire Tirivahni race, and now the search for the Twins rages throughout breeding houses in Suoro and Speritan. The Twins are soon discovered: a boy named Arethan and his sister Ariane. But in the wrong hands their powers are trained up, trying to make a weapon of this legendary power that was said to seal the turmoil in the very planet itself. Nevertheless, it seems that the signs of the Apocalypse merely race nearer...
Book Two: The Godless War
Synopsis:
Through the mistakes of the Speritanian slavers, the wrong twin was trained and used. Now Arethan is alone in the world with his vengeance and need for his sister. He manages to impress a Muzina in the south by name of Zolar - one of the most respected Muzina of the day. With Zolar's support and his vast army of followers, Arethan sets up camp just south of the Speritanian border with one aim: free his sister from the enslavement and abuse of her Speritanian captors. While they work on their plans and tactics a Suoro arrives at their door, a mysterious man by name of Caithnes. This Suoro offers to help them and proves most skilled and intelligent. Still, Zolar doesn't trust him, and it is not clear who's side Caithnes is truly on. However, with Caithnes' help they manage to storm the Speritanian castle and actually take and hold land within Speritanian borders - an unprecedented victory! As Arethan falls further and further under Caithnes' power, Ariane too begins to fall in love with him. Will fidelity to one's kin or love for one's saviour prove stronger?
Book Three: Five Point Strong
Synopsis:
The web of Caithnes has been spun perfectly, though the truth of who he's working for is still shrouded in mystery. Now there are no clear sides and no clear victors as Arethan, Zolar, Ariane, Caithnes and all those their paths have touched hang in the balance as the Apocalypse dawns. The time has come for the Last True Hero to stand up and decide: Should the world really be saved? If the twin decides to let the world fall, it will continue as it always has: great wars and ultimate heartache, true heroes and undying love, extremes and legends-in-the-making until the world literally rends itself apart. On the other hand, if the twin decides to sacrifice the soul of the last True Hero, the power may be enough to release the tensions of the world, to start over in calm, pristine beginnings. In this new world there will never again be another True Hero, never again such great holocausts, genocides, lovers that transcend time and death, mortals ascending to godhood and infamy... But such is the price of eternity: a half-life of moderation. Is it worth the ultimate sacrifice?
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The Circle Series
~ a series of 9 (to be read in any order) ~
The Circle Series is a collection of stand-alone novels that feature the greatest Heroes of each of the nine Eastern Countries after the Fall of the Twins and the saving of the world. With Ul-Zaorith no longer able to support such epic heroes, it was my aim to show the great deads of slightly less-than-perfect heroes. These books can be read in any order, but are considered a series as the Heroes overlap into the story followng and preceding them in numerical order.
1. Ralon the Blind
Synopsis:
Ralon the Blind is the hero of Muzin in the Circle Series. Ralon is the heir to the Imperial School of the Yath style martial arts of Muzin - a prestigious and famous martial arts school that has been in his family for several generations. However, in Ralon's youth he ends up having an affair with a married woman who's husband to punish Ralon for his impudence blinds him for life. Ralon has to relearn his martial arts with his new handicap but is soon distracted by a new sense he begins to develop. It is not -sight- per say...but there is something alive in his milky vision and he begins to discover it alerts him to things before they happen, like a precursor a warning. The more time Ralon spends with this gift the more he realizes that it is a tangible sign of the very lifeblood of the planet - the often spoken-of Huskline and Manna Weave. Consumed with his need to understand what he is experiencing, Ralon devotes his life to discovering the truth of what happens when life becomes death...
2. The Black Burvia
Synopsis
Mykætha is the heroine of Suoro in the Circle Series. Born in a time of economic recession, Mykætha's family had no choice but to sell her into a Pleasurehouse to keep their family from a life on the streets. There Mykætha begins to display a powerful will to survive, and manages to attract the attention of a weathly Suoro Baron and soon buys her freedom. However, on her travels to return to her family, she is captured by the South Rahva - the Suoro Mafia - and she becomes the reluctant lover of their leader, the Cahmir, to preserve her safety and win their trust. She learns a few tricks from her time with these crime bosses, and manages to escape by leaving the country and heading for Muzin. There she learns the humble trade of tailoring as she tries to earn enough to remain fed and housed. It is after being raped to pay a debt she owes that Mykætha decides to learn how to properly defend herself and becomes the first Suoro in history admitted to an Imperial School - Ralon's School of Yath. Not only does she master the martial art, she becomes their new master when Ralon leaves her behind to pursue his quest. With her newfound power and knowledge, Mykætha returns to her homeland to take control of the South Rahva and put to use their power and influence. She is said to be the one who initiated the Rahva Code - a system of government that brought the Rahva up to standards of power and respect with the other three powers ruling Suoro: the Monarchy, the Parlaiment and the Mayadrihn Secret Service.
3. Searching for the Horizon
Synopsis:
Sildan Kwai is the hero of Lisdan in the Circle Series. Sildan Kwai became one of the greatest inventors of his day - credited with the invention of the telescope, the pocket watch, the portable lantern, the first modified pole arms not to mention the charting of the Da'fer Archipelago. Sildan Kwai was more than an inventor - he was a philosopher, a humanitarian, an artist, a tradesman, a merchant, an explorer and an extremely inquisitive young man. His endless questions and insatiable curiosity lead to an increasingly large number of enemies - both slighted peers and distrustful beaurocrats alike. Sildan Kwai's life became a race between what he could offer the world and how many people he could alienate with his vision. Truly a man ahead of his age, it was only a matter of time until his enemies would gather enough evidence and accusations to bring him to trial and sentance him to death.
4. Feud of Brothers
Synopsis:
Gudo Vall and Tiao Lann are the two heroes of Bodove in the Circle series. While the story is mostly told from Gudo Vall's perspective, he would insist that Tiao Lann is the truer hero of the two of them. They were a pair of young Bodovians - Vall of the Panther Clan and Lann of the Fox Clan in a small southern village. Best of friends and nigh inseparable despite the stigma against both of their Clans they were like brothers. They grew up in a time when Bodove saw its only Civil War, and sure enoguh both young men threw themselves into the fighting to defend their homes. Unfortunately, Lann believed the country should remain united and enrolled in the Bodovian Army while Vall became the leader of the resistance - a well organized group of resilient fighters striving to separate the "cat" Clans from the "dog" Clans and divide the country. Both boys raised in power and in the ranks until it came down to a fight between them and a decision over what is truly worth fighting - and killing - for.
5. Curse of Life
Synopsis:
Sanno Mor is the heroine of Ere Beghin in the Circle Series. Sanno Mor was assigned to a woman alchemist in Ere Beghin as a replacement for her deceased partner. However, the quota was filled for male eggs that year - the preference of the alchemist. Still, with all the red tape, no one bothered to double check to ensure that Sanno Mor's egg was indeed the male it was registered as, and so began a life of torment and confusion for Sanno Mor. By the time she reached puberty in the dorms and the two signs of womanhood began showing in her - namely the pointing of her ears and the increasingly ruddy hue of her skin - she became horrified that there might have been something wrong with her. So began her self-mutilation to try to retain some semblage of masculinity, the cautorizing of her hacked-off ears, the poisonous bleaches and cosmetics on her amphibious skin to look paler... Soon she began to apply the same off-kilter views to everything she approached, questioning things that a normal Ere breghin would not question, striving for and wanting things a normal Ere breghin would not want... Sanno Mor became too alien to stay in her country, and she ventured outside, a water-creature trying to survive on land. It is perhaps thanks to her chaotic nature that the rest of the world learned more about the Ere breghin race, and began to question whether or not they truly were inherently evil...
6. Exile
Synopsis:
Amalus is the hero of Humoro in the Circle Series. Amalus had the fated lot to be secretly conceived and hatched by a couple of Humoro who were traitors to their country and under the employ of Speritan. They were eventually discovered and were sentanced to purification - a death sentance that could not be escaped. Their last plee of their employers was to save their young boy from the merciless institutions of their rulers. Amalus was smuggled out of Humoro and brought to Speritan where he quickly became the height of fashion. Afterall, it was unprecedented that a Humoro should live outside the walls of his home country. Almost no one had seena Humoro up close before, let alone conversed with one. And Amalus, as young as he was, could still be moulded to think differently than the programming of his people. Small steps first, teach him the concept of "I"...
7. The Sword and the Sun
Synopsis:
Eirin Sommat is the heroine of Speritan in the Circle Series. Women are expensive baubles in Speritan, the most highly desired object that could prove a man's wealth to his peers. So, it makes sense that the hero chosen to be featured for Speritan would be the one woman she was so highly sought after and so desired that she was elevated enough to have her opinion heard, to have her choice of her suitors, and the most exalted in stage and theatre. Eirin's life was one of sale and marriage to aristocrat, beaurocrat, nobility and tradesman, each husband leaving her wealthier and more influential than the last. Then, at the apex of her desirability, she fell in love - not with any great statesman, but with a boy - no less a Muzina boy named Ios. The Muzina and the Speritanians are mortal enemies and have always been, and this ill-fated love affair could not end well from the moment it began. Knowing this, Eirin followed her heart, defiant to the end and died for her love. Rather than silencing her impudence for once and for all, she became more famous than ever, with operas and dramas penned about her life. Even in death Eirin Sommat became the status quo for the desirability of a woman.
8. Resurrection of the White Tiger
Synopsis:
Prince Falian is the hero of Tirivahn in the Circle Series. Hundreds of years after the original enslavement of the Tirivahni people, it is only right that the hero selected for their tale is the very man who freed them and reinstated them again as an independant country in the eyes of the world. The Tirivahni line of Emperors and Empresses has been unbroken since it began for one reason - the sign of he or she who will next ascend to the throne is the one the gods had granted a unique form to: the form of the White Tiger. This form can only be passed down through the royal line who are descended from Mekekla and Azjik - the very Gods of the Tirivahni people. So when hundreds of years later, out of slavery that destroyed and suppressed the Tirivahni people's language, scripts and almost every vestige of their culture there could be no doubt that this upstart boy, Falian was their long-lost prince because he had could assume the form of the White Tiger. Being meant to rule is not enough, and even the bravest heart needs might to win. This is the story of how Prince Falian ressurected the Throne of the White Tiger, freed his people and reunited them after nearly a thousand years of enslavement.
9. Taema of the Wilds
Synopsis:
Taema is the heroine of Talmont in the Circle Series. There is only one punishment for any crime committed in the tribes of Talmont: the criminal will be strapped to the base of a tree int he jungle, their eyelides cut away and the nocturnal Talmontese will be left for dead in time for the sun to rise and permanently blind them. This is the punishment Taema suffered for her rape of a young boy in her tribe. And yet Taema did not die, she broke herself free. She fought off the hungry Qara that crave the Talmontese flesh, befriended the Mycoaties who inhabit the many lakes of the isle, made steeds of the wild flesh-eating moths of the forest canopy. Still, the punishment strips away the clan mask of a Talmontese, making them the enemy and outsider of every one of the hundreds of warring Clans of Talmont. Every day is a struggle for survival, and yet Taema fought her way day after day until she found the coast. Then she had merely to wait until one of the sporadic trade ships came near enough and then she would be free. But where does an outlaw go in the world? Anywhere she wants...
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