Category: Fantasy Publisher: The Book Guild
ISBN-10: 1846245532
Type: Fiction
Pages: 284
Copyright: 28.4.2011
ISBN-13: 9781846245534
A teacher since 2000.
The ancient elf Denegtacus has been waiting all his long life for the one to succeed him as protector of the elves and the greatest mage in Eurasia. What he does not expect is that person to be a human: an aberration as far as his race is concerned. Yet he knows that a child of such innate power must be properly trained to take his place as the next L'tusian or pose an unnacceptable threat to all the free races of the world.
For over a hundred years Denegtacus tutors his pupil until Chard's powers are almost a match for his own and even the elves have begun to accept the human enchanter as worthy to live among them. Yet on the very day that Denegtacus prepares to initiate Chard as his formal successor, the old mage's hopes wither in the face of an appalling revelation, and the darkness that has haunted Chard's coul from the time of his birth reaches out to claim him for his own.
Now the people of Eurasia must put aside ancient differences and form a united front against an evil that threatens to engulf them and their lands for ever.
Excerpt
Rather than quibble over the deaths of the lives I choose to end, I would say to the person who follows me, 'Think of all those I allowed to be born'.
The first book in the series takes place on Klairn, a post apocalyptic, yet provincial world where an elite core of Protectors keep watch over those who would cause harm. Becoming a Protector of Klairn is about as hard as making the Olympics on Earth