Orphan
Book 1
The Key to Magic
Mar began his life alone, discarded by a cruel destiny written by evil deeds. He is the product of centuries of magical manipulation, a child of a lost age when magic was a science and technology was simply another name for power. But catastrophe cast him into a harsher future, where that same magic survives only as a feared and despised remnant.
The Key to Magic follows Mar as he struggles to deal with duties and powers that are thrust upon him by circumstance as he struggles against the destiny written for him by magicians long dead. Ancient knowledge, blood-bound kingship, war, empire, undertime, and the buried machinery of an older and harsher world draw tighter around him with every step. What begins in the ruins of a broken civilization grows into an epic fantasy saga of survival, transformation, and the cost of mastering a power that history itself tried to erase.
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