The Lastchild
Author:
Duane Couchot-VorePublisher:
Duane A. Couchot-VorePublication Date:
04-18-2013ISBN:
9780989267601Subjects:
FantasyFiction
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Electronic book text, 9780989267601Description:
Book One of the End of the Ancients
Lad Oxley is no hero. He is just a typical farm boy who likes to read. Those dreamy pursuits become suddenly urgent one day on the road when his life turns bizarre: a shadow that walks upright and that releases burning coals when stabbed, a funny little man who calls himself a dwarf, and three greenish gargoyles with broadswords and the odor of garbage. Running for his life, he is through a magical portal into another world.
As the only person at hand who can read Old Elfin, he is plunged into a profound and dangerous mystery. Gargolyes are gaining in might, magic is crumbling, words written in Old Elfin fight with anyone who tries to read them, and an ancient evil is yearning to awake. Joined by unlikely companions, Lad finds himself unwillingly launched on a quest to unravel a puzzle 5000 years old, one that threatens to destroy not only the world of elves and dwarfs but his own as well. Already, everyone who can read Old Elfin is being exterminated, and only he has survived — so far. The elves are weakening as magic deteriorates around them, nukgruks are rising in the west, and echoes of the past are pulling fate forward.
His road takes him into forgotten catacombs, among seats of lethal evil power, to remnants of the dimmest past. Do the answers lie with the enigmatic Obelisk at Shalomar’s Lookout? With the even more bizarre Watcher in the Well of Shadows, where hundreds have disappeared already? With the terrifying evil wizard Kazluc? Or something worse?
For in his dreams that are not dreams, is a vision of someone older than history and more evil than Kazluc. Chalik Ziniril, who calls him the Lastchild and beseeches him to remember her, to discard his elfin friends and join her.
Beware the Black Onyx Eye….
In a split second, at the climax of history, the worlds will be either saved or destroyed, and that fate rests upon Lad’s shoulders. Can he solve the mystery before it is too late?
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