Was Ailish a sister then, or a servant? Would he grow up to laugh at young men like her brother Beagan when they tried to join the King's Guard? she stooped and picked up the little boy, mumbling nonsense as she went. But she could not ignore the tiny, frightened voice. Her own father was somewhere out there in this madness. Tyree had five brothers - all of them unarmed. Healers all around were trying to work their spells against the chaos and the pain. Tyree wound her way between desperate magicians and fire and ash.
She ran down the crumpled stairs, past bloodstains and bodies. She watched it collide with the stone steps and roll down, leaving a path of destruction in its wake.Īn echoing silence fell across the battlefield that had been her home. Tyree jumped back to avoid a falling rock twice the size of her head. The city had been built to withstand attack, but nothing could withstand the wrath of the shape-shifters. Now only screams and sobs could be heard over the sounds of destruction. The Mad Sorcerer’s experiments stirred something along the Grakish Coast, something that had been deep and dormant in those waters: the shape shifters. No one knows what happened in the Giant Lands after the ban, no one knows why, but eventually the Mad Sorcerer left and returned to the High Kingdoms, who refused to see him as a threat, leaving behind untold nightmares in that war-torn land that no one in the rest of the circle could imagine.īut one piece of that horror would be felt outside the Giant Lands. He was the cause of the Traveler Ban on the Giant Lands, a ban which cut the Giant Lands off from the aid of the rest of the circle and cut the rest of the Circle off from news of the Giant Lands. Soon, the world would put a name to this horror: The Mad Sorcerer. Disappearances, shadows, twisted bodies stumbled upon in the rubble. They knew it as a creeping fear, a rising horror even more frightening than the destructive wars. A sorcerous power that only a few Giant villagers knew, but did not understand. The last of the Great Kingdoms of the Ancients had fallen without warning, leaving those who looked to the Giant Lands for wisdom and justice lost without anywhere to turn.Īs the Giant Lands consumed themselves in an incomprehensible and seemingly endless warfare, as the rest of the circle learned to live without the protective shadows of the Giant Heroes of old, a sinister power was growing on the border between the High Kingdoms and the Giant Lands. When the Giant Wars began the Circle of the World was in shock. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted without prior permission of the author.
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