Kellen Tavadon, son of the Arch-mage Lycaelon, thought he knew the way
the world worked. his fater, leading the wise and benevolent Council of
Mages, protected and guided the citizens of the Golden City of the
Bells. Young Mages in training - all men, for women were unfit to
practice magic – memorized the intricate details of High Magick and
aspired to seats on the council.
Then he found the forbidden Books of Wild Magic – or did they find
him? The three slim volumes woke Kellen to the wide world outside the
City's isolating walls. This magic was not dead, strangled by rules and
regulations. It felt like a living thing, guided by the hearts and
minds of those who practiced it and benefited from it.
Questioning everything he has known, Kellen discovers too many
of the City's dark secrets. Banished, with the Outlaw hunt on his
heels, Kellen invokes Wild Magic – and finds himself running for his
life with a unicorn at his side.
Kellen's life changes almost faster than he can understand or
accept. Rescued by a unicorn, healed by a female Wild Mage who knows
more about Kellen than anyone out side the City should, meeting Elven
royalty and Elven warriors, and plunged into a world where the magical
beings he has learned about as abstract concepts are flesh-and-blood
creatures... Kellen both revels in and fears his new freedom.
Especially once he learns about Demons. He's always thought
they were another abstract concept – a stand-in for ultimate evil. But
if centaurs and dryads are real, then Demons surely are as well. And
the one thing all the Mages of the City agreed on was that practicing
Wild Magic corrupted a Mage. Thured him into a Demon. Would that be
Kellen's fate?
Deep in Obsidian Mountain, the Demons are waiting. Since their
defeat in the last great war, they've been biding their time, sowing
the seeds of distrust and discontent between their human and Elven
enemies. Very soon now, when the Demons rise to make war, there will be
no alliance between High and Wild Magic to stand against them. And all
the world will belong to the Endarkened.
