Immortality Shattered
4 primary works
Book 1
The Staff of Life has been lost for a thousand years. Imbued with the powers to dominate all life, the Staff can save or ruin the Free Lands. Many have sought out the Staff. All failed.
Aron Kryte has served the Hierarchy for years, rising through the ranks of the venerable Golden Warriors. He patrols the Free Lands, maintaining the long peace, little does he know that the world he knows is built upon lies. His quiet summer days are shattered when he is led into an ambush by the man whose brother he once killed.
Imelin is the last of his order. A powerful wizard and member of the High Council, he has ever harbored the secret desire for power. He defects and heads to the forsaken land of Suroc Tol, where an army of darklings await his command. At last he can embark upon his quest to discover the Staff of Life and begin a war of attrition.
Events are set in motion that will change the Free Lands forever. War brews. Armies gather. Only a handful of men and women stand against the coming storm.
Book 2
The war has begun. Legions of darklings, freed from their prison, ravage the Free Lands. All the Black Imelin needs is the Staff of Life to return to Meisthelm a conqueror.
The Galdean army abandons their capital in favor of the Crimson Fields. There, Field Marshal Dlorn and the others prepare to do battle with an impossibly large foe. What remains of their kingdom depends on them.
Aron Kryte finds himself in an impossible position. Not only is he the last descendent of the mad Ils Kincannon, the man who once tried to enslave the world, but he is the destined bearer of the Staff of Life. He and his band of heroes secure the Staff before Imelin and flee east.
Far to the southeast, former High Counselor Sylin Marth has gone in search of the legendary wizard Elxander. His hopes that the wizard will return to help the Hierarchy put an end to Imelin and the war are mired by doubts.
Book 3
Armies rage across the Free Lands. The Galdeans, led by Field Marshal Dlorn, defeated the darklings at the Crimson Fields and now head south. Dlorn and his Galdeans are the only force capable of stopping Imelin.
Sylin Marth's quest to discover the wizard Elxander has taken him far across the Free Lands. Hunted and harried the entire way, he and his band of dwarves journey across the Goblin Lands, ward off a dragon, and finally come face to face with what he hopes will prove to be the salvation of all.
Aron Kryte is found on the banks of the Simca River, near drowned and frozen. He is nursed back to health and soon begins the quest to find his friends and end the threat of the Black once and for all. Along the way, he confronts the one man who has eluded him for twenty years.
Treachery, betrayal, and determination fill the Free Lands. Whoever wins the war, none of the kingdoms will ever be the same again.
Book 4
The Hierarchy is in its death throes. The High Council has been destroyed. Meisthelm has fallen. Killed in the ultimate act of betrayal, the Black Imelin no longer threatens the world. In his stead, a stronger, more powerful villain has arisen and continues the work he began.
Aron Kryte and his companions have occupied the ruins of Meisthelm and now struggle with deciding their next course of action. Armies of darklings and Rovers continue to plague the Free Lands.
Poros Pendyier and the remnants of the Free Rebellion, combined with the mighty of the Dagger Trolls, prepares to stop the evil growing in Morthus.
The land of Sadith Oom, forgotten by generations, has become a place of unrest. Armies converge upon the desolate kingdom, for it is here that the end of times will begin. Aron Kryte must destroy the Staff of Life in the fires of Mordrun Hath. Friends will fall. Heroes will rise. The final hour approaches.