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Dawnbringer: Lightborn

Lightborn is the centerpiece of the Dawnbringer series of novels in the world of Irándiel, upon the small continent of Telmérion, cold and rugged and yet inhabited since the beginning of human history by the first family of humankind. Though the setting is high fantasy—a work of co-creative imagination fashioning a mythical world with its own history and geography—the plot and the ins-and-outs of the world are deeply realistic, portraying as it were an ancient and long-forgotten past of our own world. Or more precisely, what is offered here is a mythical exposition of the true past that we all share—with very little magic or other fantasy tropes, but with a great deal of “magic,” in other words, a world filled with wonders and terrors of all kinds, from the ancient guardians of the world, the Anaíon, to vicious and deadly beasts such as dragons, eötenga, and vru’ádach. The characters thus find themselves caught in the cosmic battle between light and darkness, between the weakness of love and the power of hate, which casts its rays and its shadows also into the heart of every man and woman. The journey marked out before their feet calls for integrity, fidelity, and heroism, and also something more, something that lies at the heart of every good adventure and every life, and which is the very measure of man. When Eldárien returns to his homeland after many years away—burdened by the awareness that he has perpetrated great evil at the hands of an Empire whose knight he has become—he encounters a continent riven by strife and war and threatened by creatures even more horrifying, born of the very darkness itself. He wishes to lay aside the sword, to leave behind a past marked with violence and bloodshed, but he also longs to aid his people against the forces that endanger their very existence. And such a path he cannot walk alone, facing obstacles both within and without, and he finds given to him both the light that he wishes to serve and friends to share the journey. All the while the land that he loves slides inexorably into conflict, into what shall be known henceforth as the War of Darkness, and he and those to whom he is joined are called upon to share the fate of their people, looking forward in hope to the promised coming of dawn after darkest night.
JoshuaElzner · 96.2k Views

The Forgotten Genesis Sect

The Forgotten Genesis Sect In a young multiverse growing on one of the leaves of the Tree of the Beginning and the End, a quiet man lives alone in a ruined library. He writes books. Thousands of them. He believes every single one is a failure. Ash Lionheart cannot remember his own name or face. Mirrors refuse him. Still water warps him. Descriptions collapse into static before they can settle. He remembers the war that erased his home, the laughter of a civilization that refused to kneel, the scent of burning Palace halls, and the faces of those who died smiling. He remembers everything except the man at the center of it all. For ten years he has repaired shelves, cooked simple meals, and filled page after page in a desperate attempt to reconstruct himself. The books he calls failures contain cultivation paths capable of rewriting multiversal law, war records that contradict five hundred thousand years of official history, and the living doctrine of a sect that once terrified Heaven, Hell, gods, demons, and emperors alike: "No being is born to kneel." One storm-black night, a wounded Holy Daughter collapses at his gate, hunted by vagrant cultivators. She screams for help. Ash opens the door. To the world, he is a quiet library master in the wilderness the Rain Scholar, the Master of Failed Books, the Nameless Gatekeeper. To the girl he saves, he is an unfathomable hidden expert. To the ancient powers that still remember the Great War, his existence is a cosmic insult. The First Heavenly Genesis Sect was supposed to be gone. Its Palace erased. Its doctrine buried under five hundred millennia of carefully maintained lies. Yet the library is not a library. The books are not books. And the broken man who cannot see his own reflection is the last living ember of the most feared, most beloved, and most thoroughly murdered civilization in creation. As disciples begin to gather crippled geniuses, demon-blooded outcasts, cursed princesses, beastkin exiles, and the discarded of a world that measures worth by bloodline and Heaven’s approval the ruined halls start to wake. Jade slips choose their readers. The Broken Bell trembles. And every “failed” page Ash writes pulls a dead age one step closer to resurrection. The world has spent half a million years believing the Genesis Sect was a cautionary tale of chaos and corruption. It is about to discover the truth was far more dangerous: They taught freedom so completely that even Heaven looked optional. And the last disciple is still writing.
Ashborn_24 · 47.5k Views

Horrifying Tales of Haunted Place-(Will be Re-Published)

Horror stories written by Joseph Kohtz The Spooky Halloween Sleepover in The Haunted Woods: After a few of their friends go missing, a group of kids investigates The Dead Woods to find them. While there, they run into monsters and ghosts that pick them off. Since their friends are disappearing, they decide to have a sleepover in the haunted woods until they find them, but they soon all go missing after the hauntings intensify. Fear Itself: After being told a ghost story around the campfire, a group of kids attending the camp becomes terrified as ghosts and monsters haunt the camp and the surrounding forest. They become afraid of it, but some initially think it's all a prank by one of the counselors, even when the campers and counselors start to get picked off one by one. Even though things look bad, some campers still think it's a fraud, at least until things get worse. The longer they stay and ignore the ghosts' warnings, the worse the hauntings become. Then they become convinced and start to get scared out of their wits. The Ghoulish Haunted Mansion: On Halloween, a group of kids decides to venture inside an old, abandoned mansion to see if it's haunted, only to be scared out of their wits by all sorts of monsters and ghosts. While inside, the kids meet a talking cat and a jack-o-lantern who try to protect them from the spirits and convince one of them to read a spell from a book to banish the ghosts. Return to The Ghoulish Haunted Mansion: On a field trip, Susan Piper takes her class to The Wellington Mansion and tells how it was haunted before she banished the ghosts a decade ago on Halloween, with the help of her friends. She also told her class how to re-haunt the house and warned them not to do so. The next day, on Halloween, six of Susan's students enter the mansion, bring the ghosts and monsters back, and get scared out of their wits. Jack, the jack-o-lantern who knew their teacher, protects them with help from Alvin, the ghost puppy, and tries to convince Victoria to read the same spell Susan read when she was in the mansion to get rid of the ghosts.
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