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How it felt like death whispering through the shadows.
“I don’t hate you,” I finally manage, my voice but a breath. He doesn’t turn to look at me. “You should,” he insists. “I’m a monster.” “If you’re a monster, then you’ll be my monster.”
shadowy trees and ever twinkling stars of Lumaria, the land of eternal night where the moon elves dwell.
the moon elves having taught the first magi how to wield the aether in the air and in their blood.
She stood so tall that she dwarfed even my father. Her dusky purple skin shimmered like crystals, and her long silver hair billowed like streams of moonlight. And her eyes were nothing like ours. Her eyes shone much brighter, her iridescent irises glowing with blues and purples.
I should feel relief at not finding Arluin’s corpse. But I only feel hollow.
And that is why, no matter the cost, I will become the most powerful mage Nolderan has ever known—even more powerful than my father. Never again will I allow those I love to be stolen from me.
I wasn’t lying when I said I wasn’t feeling well. Except I have a sickness of the heart, rather than the body.
Because the cost of weakness is death.
I close my eyes and let out a heavy breath. I wish I could explain to her how all this makes me feel. I wish I could make her understand.
Despite our feud, I have no desire for her blood to be on my hands.
The Abyss is formed from eight sub-planes, with the largest ruled by the Void King. The other seven are commanded by his lieutenants, who are known as Void
She was Lady Eladine Pembelson of Montarra, a land annexed by Tirith long ago, and
On the next page, I find a sketch of her. She is depicted as slender with dark curly hair, and her wings and talons and horns make her as deadly as she is beautiful.
Natharius Thalanor was the greatest High Enchanter of Lumaria ever to exist, and the most arrogant.

