The Age of Magic Series

Amidst the darkest days of antiquity, mankind discovers a new kind of hero.   For thousands of years, mankind warred without magic. Peculiar abilities were buried in history along with the storied paladins and the mysterious dark elves who rarely ventured into human towns.   That all changes at the end of the Tranquility Era, when a young man named Ashton accidentally raises his murdered best friend Clayton from the grave. Because of his mistake, Ashton becomes the focus of manhunts, armies, and the King's judgement, but Ashton is not the biggest problem in the Kingdom of Surdel. The golden age of man is coming to a close and enemies surround the civilized world. Lulled into a false sense of security by isolation and pervasive peace, human lords hatch petty schemes to weaken their rivals and gain favor with the throne. Meanwhile, the demon lord Orcus stirs beneath the Great Northern Mountains and the orcish hordes grow restless just beyond the Southern Peaks. Out of the chaos at the end of the Tranquility Era, a new breed of hero arrives to forge an age of sorcery and mayhem. And into this chaos comes the Necromancer!     The four books in the Orcusinian (Book 1 - 4 of the Age of Magic) are available to read. You can enjoy the complete, expansive arc of Ashton Jeraldson, Mekadesh, the paladins, orcs, elves, and dragons in their epic battles with the Lord of the Undead!   Books of the Orcusinian (1-4 of Age of Magic):  Book 1: The People's Necromancer Book 2: The Dark Paladin Book 3: The Dragon Prince Book 4: The Red Poet

Sometimes, you have to fight fire with fire. Or demons with demons.   The paladins have a storied history, one tainted by a twisted sacrifice. To fight the demon lords intent on taking over their world, they had to make a deal with one. Under this pact, paladin Cedric Arrington is forged into a weapon. Wearing his black armor to signal to all of Nirendia his dark allegiance, he is a man beset by shadow on a quest to send all demons back to the Abyss.   A demon lord named Orcus emerges from the underworld, and the foundations of the human kingdom of Surdel begin to fracture and weaken. Undead rise without the Necromancer. Demons pour out of Mount Godun at the heart of the tranquil realm, and no one but the paladins can smite the fiery creatures back to where they came from.   Cedric is joined by Prince Jayden of the dark elven Etyria Empire, who have fought their share of undead and evil creatures under their ancient, fallen cities for thousands of years. They search for hope. They search for a weapon capable of defeating a demon lord.   As King Aethis Eldenwald looks for answers to his demon and undead problem, old enemies from the south seek vengeance for recent wrongs. Meanwhile, in the capital Kingarth, the Necromancer Ashton Jeraldson is held hostage by a father grieving the loss of his famous son. When Ashton's pleas for release fall on deaf ears, he is given a tantalizing choice: stay prisoner while the world burns or make his own deal with the darkness.   The four books in the Orcusinian (Book 1 - 4 of the Age of Magic) are available to read. You can enjoy the complete, expansive arc of Ashton Jeraldson, Mekadesh, the paladins, orcs, elves, and dragons in their epic battles with the Lord of the Undead!   Books of the Orcusinian (1-4 of Age of Magic):  Book 1: The People's Necromancer Book 2: The Dark Paladin Book 3: The Dragon Prince Book 4: The Red Poet  

A father murdered. An empire imperiled. A son coming for vengeance.   King Jofka Rasalased of the Visanth Empire is a man who grabs life by the horns. No woman is safe from his allure. No kingdom can intimidate him. The empire prospers in his shadow… until an assassin's blade ends the reign of the ambitious, charismatic king.   Prince Jandhar finds his dying father and the same deadly knife at his own throat. The killer utters a warning that the prince will never heed. As the assassin leaves, the Kingdom of Surdel cheers at an empire retreating, but Visanth is not a nation in decline. It is a snake recoiling.   The prince looks for a weapon to strike back at the kingdom across the sea. He finds inspiration in the volatile, winged beasts of the Dragongrounds. If he can reverse a god's curse, the dragon riders of old may return.   Years later, Surdel burns. Undead roam the southern lands and feed on the living. A lord protector is made fiendish by the Demon Lord Orcus. Together, the master and his apprentice decimate the besieged citizens of the Croft protectorate. In the north, the Necromancer Ashton Jeraldson searches for an artifact that might turn the tide of the demon invasion. Around him, the forces of the Holy One ready themselves for the arrival of the Prince of Demons. Elves and orcs come to Croft Keep to crush the ghoulish invaders and fight a demon lord, just as a strange man from a foreign land steps onto the northern shores of the Small Sea.   The murder of King Jofka has gone unanswered for long enough. The response is finally coming, and the world will tremble at the war cry of the Dragon Prince and the might of the Visanth Empire!     The four books in the Orcusinian (Book 1 - 4 of the Age of Magic) are available to read. You can enjoy the complete, expansive arc of Ashton Jeraldson, Mekadesh, the paladins, orcs, elves, and dragons in their epic battles with the Lord of the Undead!   Books of the Orcusinian (1-4 of Age of Magic):  Book 1: The People's Necromancer Book 2: The Dark Paladin Book 3: The Dragon Prince Book 4: The Red Poet

A demon lord has risen, and an alliance of elves, humans, orcs, and demons has come to stop him. But who among them is strong enough to strike down the Lord of the Undead?   For 10,000 years, the wood elves of Nomintaur Forest have fled from the savage orcish horde. Beneath the green canopy of the fae trees, the orcs spread their savagery to the elven capital of Felsari. Long gone is the era of Aredhel and his immortal rangers. Their tales cannot even be whispered in the quiet of home trees, for fear that the orcs might find the storytellers.   Into this dangerous world, the wood elf Nessamela is born. Her father and mother are simple folk, hunters by trade, and she aspires to be like them. Her plans change when she meets a dark elven poet prince, who shows her that life can be more than just tracking beasts and hiding from orcs in trees.   But a poet with pretty words is not what her people need. The orcs attack so deep into the Nomintaur Forest that whole elven towns are massacred and abandoned. As her fellow elves disappear into the bushes, shivering and daring not to make a sound, a daughter of butchers and hunters becomes the forest ranger that no one dared to hope for.   Meanwhile, in the Kingdom of Surdel, the young King Ragnar Eldenwald calls for aid in the war against Orcus, the Lord of the Undead.  Humans, elves, and orcs march on the capital of Kingarth, while the demon lord Mekadesh directs her new champion, the Necromancer Asthon Jeraldson, into an unnatural stronghold at Lake Coinen to recover an artifact powerful enough to turn the tide. But can anyone save Kingarth in time to stop its citizens from joining the ranks of the undead?   Blood will spill and heroes will fall in the epic battle between the Lord of the Undead and the Queen of Chaos!       The four books in the Orcusinian (Book 1 - 4 of the Age of Magic) are available to read. You can enjoy the complete, expansive arc of Ashton Jeraldson, Mekadesh, the paladins, orcs, elves, and dragons in their epic battles with the Lord of the Undead!   Books of the Orcusinian (1-4 of Age of Magic):  Book 1: The People's Necromancer Book 2: The Dark Paladin Book 3: The Dragon Prince Book 4: The Red Poet