The Ascendant Path - Captive: In the prison of a southern caster there are no easy ways out. - Softcover

Cook, Joshua C.

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798986691237

Verlag: Allos Press, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

They didn't curse him. They built him.

Layten Grayread wakes in chains beneath Calmar's fortress, separated from Wix and Gilly, locked in lightless stone. The Anchorhold has fallen. The Southern strike was surgical, devastating—and Layten is exactly where Calmar wanted him.

Because Calmar knows what Anchors really are.

For years, the most powerful—and most arrogant—caster in the free lands has been researching the truth behind Anchor magic. And now, with three captives in his dungeon, he has proof. When Layten does something no Anchor should be able to do, the horrifying reality comes into focus:

Anchors aren't born broken. They're casters, perverted by Sartum and bound to staffs that use human souls to twist their gifts. The Void inside Layten isn't a curse. It's corruption. A weapon forged by a mad god.

And the staff he carries? It's not a tool. It's a leash.

In the North, Vilom has slaughtered the surviving Anchors and seized absolute power. Sartum speaks through him now, commanding obedience with pain that shatters minds. Every executed Anchor feeds the god who made them—and the crusade has become divine tyranny.

But there's a third force moving in the shadows. The Leuh blooddancers are hunting, manipulating, reshaping the conflict for purposes even Calmar doesn't understand. And his arrogance will cost him everything.

To save Wix and Gilly, Layten must do more than accept the truth of what he is. He must learn to wield the Void as a weapon—not to absorb magic, but to unleash it. To become the thing he's spent three books fearing.

Because in the dark, chained and desperate, Layten Grayread is done being a tool.

Book Four of The Ascendant Path. The gods didn't curse the Anchors. They weaponized them. And some weapons learn to fight back.

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Josh Cook lives in sometimes sunny Florida with his wife and two children, one overly excitable dog and a cat who hates everyone. He picked up writing to have a creative outlet, as his day job consists of networks and servers. He has been writing since 2014.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Allos Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798986691237
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 339
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