Empire of Dirt (The Echoes Saga, #2)

by Philip C. Quaintrell

Mankind created the elves in their image. They were the first attempt at trying to become immortal, but the king failed, and in the process created another species you now know as the elf.

Mankind came first. The king, Atilan, was perhaps the strongest- Atilan? the mage echoed. The king of the gods? He wasn’t always a god. In the beginning he was a man.

“You’re both young, so I understand that hope still plays a part in your thinking, but trust me, hoping doesn’t get it done. Sometimes you have to grit your teeth and keep fighting…”

Those words were not from the gods, but from the humans. His sister had found the prophecy and had clearly been studying it, but they were not godly words, as his warriors had then believed.

“The gods are false! We, the immortals, are the true rulers of Verda!”