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The Key to Magic • Book 1
Orphan
Mar began his life alone, discarded by a cruel destiny written by evil deeds.
The opening novel of The Key to Magic begins in flight, with a desperate boy named Mar clawing his way out of an imperial pursuit and into a future he cannot yet imagine. The world around him is old, broken, and dangerous: a place of cities built over deeper ruins, fading empires, and powers that survive only in fragment and fear.
Mar is the product of forgotten acts of magical design, born long after the age that created him has collapsed into legend. What should have been lost still waits beneath the surface of the world, and as Mar struggles simply to survive, the buried machinery of that older age begins to pull at him. His path leads through hardship, kingship, war, prophecy, and the relentless pressure of powers that see him as tool, threat, or key.
Orphan is the entry point to an epic fantasy series of survival, transformation, empire, and ancient knowledge. If you want the beginning of Mar’s story and the cleanest way into The Key to Magic, start here.
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