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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.
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HP: Too Late, System! I’m Already the DADA Professor

"The Professor Who Brought Eastern Flair to Hogwarts" "Dumbledore? Didn't he already graduate? Why is he back at school again?" "Oh, Severus, don't be so tense. He's the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor!" "Bloody hell, if I catch him eating hotpot out of a cauldron in the castle one more time, I'm challenging him to a duel." ······ "You are the worst class I've ever taught!" "But Professor, isn't this your first time teaching?" ······ "Miss Granger, as class monitor, you'll lead morning study sessions by the Black Lake every day." "Mr. Potter, as sports captain, after morning studies, you'll lead everyone in a lap around the Black Lake!" ······ "O.W.L. Exams: 100 Days Countdown" "Burn the boats—let's ace every single O.W.L.!" Meet Douglas Holmes, a Hufflepuff with an Eastern soul. Three years after graduation, he returns to Hogwarts as a professor, bringing a completely different kind of magic to the ancient castle. With his unconventional teaching methods—from hotpot dinners to military-style morning routines—this young professor is about to turn Hogwarts education upside down. Will his Eastern approach to magic education clash with traditional wizarding ways? Can he survive Snape's disapproval and Dumbledore's curious glances? And most importantly, can he actually help his students achieve those perfect O.W.L. scores? A hilarious and heartwarming tale of cultural fusion, unconventional teaching, and the magic that happens when East meets West at the world's most famous school of witchcraft and wizardry. Tags: Comedy, Slice of Life, Teacher-Student Dynamics, Cultural Fusion, Hogwarts AU
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