Epic Awakening

To young trainee Rain Barynd, becoming a Council Guard in bucolic New Haven will secure a positive future that involves neither farming nor any real fighting. Impressing his girlfriend’s skeptical parents and overcoming a handful of bullies among the trainees—along with the inexplicable intensity of his trainer, a decorated warrior from the East—are his greatest challenges. Or so he believes. A rare and ruthless bandit attack marks the beginning of the mayhem that engulfs Rain’s childhood home and sets him on an unimaginable path that includes … his own magic?

The ancient Fael entombed the Anaxagorum in a sarcophagus deep underground 10,000 years ago. The "living book" of magic had no place in a world of reason, and if those hiding it did their job well, no human eye would ever see it again. John the Booker, Librast of Northem, writes his eyewitness account of how the execrated thing re-emerged and spilled eldritch magic over a civilization with only swords and muscle to fight it.

Verdan Blacke ist ein Kaiserlicher Magier, Forscher aus Leidenschaft aber Soldat aus Notwendigkeit. Am Ende einer blutiger Schlacht legt ihm eine Hexe mit ihrem letzten Atemzug einen Fluch auf. Ohne andere Alternativen ist er gezwungen dem ständig wachsenden Schmerz des Fluches zu entfliehen, indem er sich durch ein Ritual selbst in Stasis versetzt.