The Three Warlocks - Softcover

Inhaltsangabe

Three warlocks, three intertwining paths, one epic fantasy world.

"And I shan’t leave here without a sacrifice—I am a God, not a pawn to be used in your petty machinations. Use the Grand Warlock for your insignificant games, but you will not use me.”

The world lies on the brink of change. The Gods and Goddesses grow restless, tired of stagnation and stillness on the world of Sirus. The cycles of warfare, slavery, and disrespect do not just bore the deities: they offend them. And so three people will be chosen to herald a new Age of the world, to bring such radical change to the very fabric of societies everywhere that the deities will have their entertainment once again.

In three separate but connected acts, Ruxel, Elise, and Aethelius will follow their overlapping paths of growth to greatness. The deities pay close attention to those who weather tragedy and grief with the decision to grow stronger.

Act I

"Don’t search for some great thing to do or a war to take part in. Enough foolish young elves die searching for their dyned on the edge of a blade.”

Innocence and family are fleeting things, often lost before appreciated fully. Ruxel, a young half-elf on the precipice of adulthood, had lived a simple life for twenty-two years, sheltered from the grim realities of the world. His village remains one of the only places in the world where elves and humans coexist as equals, not as master and slave. Plagued by listlessness and a desire to mark a name for himself, Ruxel discovers how fragile peace truly is: human raiders in the night--once noble in purpose but now evil in deed--come with fire and chains, leaving death and flame in their wake. His brother and father missing after the raid, and alongside a mysterious elf who had come to his village in the dead of night, Ruxel chases both the raiders and his destiny, eager to reach a destination he will always regret visiting.

Act II

"She looked how she felt: her biggest fear come true. A decaying, broken woman."

Powerlessness is a common taste to Elise. Centuries later, even though slavery had long since been abolished by the elves, humans were still treated as servants without rights by much of elven society. Elise, an aging human mercenary, has her life saved by an unlikely duo: it's unheard of for two noble elves to save the life of a human they do not know. Together with the only survivors of her company, a pair of elven twins, she must face a grim reality—life without her arm and leg, life without the only family she'd ever known. As she recovers both physically and emotionally, she reflects on the journey that had stolen the lives of those she had loved, and comes to find a new purpose for life in an unlikely place.

Act III

"He’d die a righteous death, an honorable death. He was fine with dying for the cause."

Death is a lover's embrace to an elf. Aethelius, an elven commando, is caught in the midst of a civil war that's tearing his country apart: racial tensions between humans and elves had been brewing in his country for centuries, and it was only a matter of time before all-out warfare occurred. Disowned from his family alongside his sister and nephew for fighting for the equality of humans everywhere, Aethelius finds himself stranded behind enemy lines with no allies except those under his command. His is a tale of survival and reconciliation in a war that had never been seen before, and through it all, Aethelius cannot help but to wonder: is he ready to die?

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