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A bell by your front door

 

Your Path

 

Rain Man

 

Writer's Inspiration: Witchery

 

Mangata

 

Yes, we do ...

 

Ready to march (ILFIN excerpt)

 

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The warrior’s path creates chaos

GlonuWar Manual

  

AFTERNEGOTIATING THE path down to the plain, Damin looked back. Soldiers stoodon the edge of the plateau, most dismounted. He sensed not only anger, butdisquiet. Some of them had to be wondering what the future now held. They wereliterally at every precipice there was.

Hisgaze descended to their own lowered level. The magical web had elongated to abarrier many miles in width. Even the most intrepid soldier on the swiftesthorse would not haul in an edge before it had moved beyond his reach. They wereindeed safe from all threats to their rear.

Daminwondered next how long it would remain with them. They needed now to deal with whatlay ahead, however, and thus he transferred his study to the great emptiness spreadbefore them. Many rivers needed crossing, also large tracks of dunes, muchrough and rocky turf, even marshes. The place had it all, and it would testendurance.

Itmight kill some.

Mirlin,after discussion, moved back to the head of the column, pushing the horse heappropriated from the Messengers. He shook Horin’s hand solemnly before going,a mark of respect. The man was a tracker also and had already crossed thisemptiness. Damin left him to do the leading; he would discover the sure-footedway.

Farin the distance he noticed smudges on the horizon. That would be the mountainssurrounding Arc. By the stars, they needed make haste. It appearedunattainable.

Beforehe kneed Forest forward again, he looked up.

Itwas past midday and the cloud cover had retreated somewhat. The glare shiftingthrough errant wisps was intense, and already he felt the heat building. Soon theywould wish the wet season followed with them. The orb they sought to escape wasdim in the brightness, but the fact that it was now visible in daytime provedsobering. It would follow them across the plain, growing every larger and inbrilliance.

Thesoldiers were looking up also, and he sighed. As Mirlin said, they had to maketheir own choices. He had done his duty for the world as he had known it. What layabove on the plateau was now no longer his concern. Years of planning and soulsearching went into reaching this point of march. While they were behindschedule, Lyra was not, and thus they had to look only ahead now.

“Come,Damin,” Horin murmured. He pointed, and Damin kneed Forest forward.

Come, reader, join the great march today …

 

According to legend, a paradise awaits across the plains, asanctuary that has survived every impact and every battle. Known as Arc, it is aplace of isolation, a place to restart civilisation.

 

A fireball grows ever larger in the skies and ancientenemies wing through the spaces; the world Massin is the gathering place forevery omen of disaster. Every resident soul faces a choice. Time now to marchsouth to the sanctuary, from the eastern highlands and the western seas, there toescape apocalypse, and the renewal of the war between the Ilfin and Glonu, orstay behind, hoping for a miracle.

 

An Elemental will find the sanctuary – Lyra is gifted – aWarrior will defend the dispossessed – the boy Horin will grow up fast – and aMarsh Devil will lead them – Damin spends years preparing for this epic event –but it is also true that a sanctuary is not always a haven. Has the legendlied? Will Arc protect them?

 

Prepare for an adventure that will journey from ancient waysof living into high-tech environments. Ilfin of Arc is a dystopian Fantasy talethat flies into star filled spaces – strap in!

ILFIN OF ARC

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