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Most believe that Endarians possess two forms of magic, time-shaping and life-shifting. In truth, these are both aspects of a singular ability: Exchange Magic.
Unlike his mighty father, King Gilbert was little more than Blalock’s tool.
After Gilbert’s father, King Rodan, had died in a riding accident seven months ago, his title had transferred to his nineteen-year-old son. Although Rodan had been strong-willed, wise, and widely respected, the populace held his paranoid weakling of a son in barely veiled contempt.
The day when Kragan would summon his vorg army to take this kingdom for his own lay on the not-too-distant horizon.
Arn, who as a troubled, twelve-year-old orphan had knifed a minor lord in Hannington’s central square for beating a peasant woman.
she learned from her father that Arn had become the assassin known as Blade.
Around the table sat Gaar; Jason, the high priest; Broderick, the commander of the high lord’s rangers; Darin, the quartermaster; and Hawthorne, their wielder of magic.
In a perfect world, she would have acquired far stronger spells before attempting to escape from vorgs into a haunted ruin. Alas, she had yet to make perfection’s acquaintance.
“He is a warrior, lost in the black,” Rafel said. “The tapping is his guide through a dark and dangerous place, a land where only the bravest among us have the will to survive.”
Horrible noises echoing through dark ruins have a unique ability to lend speed to the feet of the weary,
Endarians possess the innate ability to channel life energy and even time itself. But the volume that can be exchanged is determined by the wielder’s talent and skill.
Discomfort made beings huddle up, dulling their senses. Few people liked being uncomfortable, but killers loved it.
thorn brush, growing on the tops of the dunes. From here, the brush looks rather green, but up close it’s as harsh as the desert itself. Every plant that grows out there has spines of one sort or another.
“There’s always a moment when you have a chance to act. We just have to choose that time. Even a bad plan executed with shock can work.”
A word of caution to any who would wield the magic of exchange: Should your channel’s capacity be exceeded, the shortfall shall be drawn from the wielder.
The worst thing about existing solely on beans was that they did not allow you to forget them between meals.
