An Age of Mist

By Mathias G. B. Colwell

“An Age of Mist” is set in an alternate world where the sun never shines and the land is covered in mist and fog nearly all of the time. What begins as a classic tale of another world develops into something much deeper. As we follow the protagonist, the young Santori, it becomes apparent that he faces a far more menacing element to this world than simply the absence of sunlight. It recounts Santori’s coming of age as he struggles to protect his family, and the battle for their survival against an unimaginable evil. It is a story of myth and legend becoming nightmare and the indomitable spirit of mankind to live and fight another day.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Melange Books, LLC
• Release date: Mar 24, 2013
• ISBN: 9781612356037

Mathias G. B. Colwell

Mathias Colwell grew up in far Northern California exploring redwood forests and cloudy beaches. He loves God, his family, and friends. Mathias has been a writer for most of his life, drafting his first stories as young as eight years of age. His desire to write fantasy was inspired by such authors as J.R.R. Tolkien, David Eddings and the late Robert Jordan. He is an avid traveler and all-around adventurer, having visited or lived in 27 countries. His travels have led him around the world to five continents including stays in Siberia, Spain, and Chile, and he attributes many of his passions and goals in life to these experiences. In his free time he enjoys reading, outdoor activities such as soccer, snowboarding and water sports. Mathias has a passion for issues pertaining to social justice and human rights and hopes to influence these areas in the future.

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An Age of Mist

Mathias G. B. Colwell

An Age of Mist is set in an alternate world where the sun never shines and the land is covered in mist and fog nearly all of the time. What begins as a classic tale of another world develops into something much deeper. As we follow the protagonist, the young Santori, it becomes apparent that he faces a far more menacing element to this world than simply the absence of sunlight. It recounts Santori’s coming of age as he struggles to protect his family, and the battle for their survival against an unimaginable evil. It is a story of myth and legend becoming nightmare and the indomitable spirit of mankind to live and fight another day.

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An Age of Mist

The First Night

The Second Night

The Third Night

About the Author

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An Age of Mist

The Age of Mist: an age in which the clouds obscure the sky, and the sun is often not seen more than once during any given person’s lifetime. Thick mist and fog enshroud the land with a cool embrace. An age in which legends are ripe and wives’ tales run rampant, lent credence by the common man’s credulous nature. The Age of Mist was-in theory-preceded by the mythical Age of Fire in which the sun is purported to have shone nearly every day, until the earth eventually dried out and famine was a scourge upon all people, thus causing the Heavenly Grottos to release the mist.

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The Chronicles of Aedonicus,

Historian of the Present Age;

The Age of Mist

The First Night

Legends say that they come in the night, the old man said, his voice thin and rough from its many years of use, that they drink in the mist by the dim, half-light of the moon so as not to be seen clearly by mankind when their murky covering disappears. He looked over at Santori.

With his hunched shoulders, and a chest that was thin and fragile, the old man resembled something more akin to a spindly creature from one of the old wives’ tales, not a man. The old man opened his mouth again and cackled. Nearly toothless, his wheezing filled the silence of the moonlit night only partially before the sound dispersed through the quiet surrounding them. The weak echoes of his laughter finally vanished, as sound has a way of doing, during those rare moments of existence when noise is an unwelcome visitor and silence the inhospitable host.

Denizens of the mist they are, he mumbled to himself now as he stared off towards the dark horizon in front of them. The sea met the night sky in