Children of the Forge: Book One of the Chronicles of Avinol

In a remote mining town in the eastern plains of Kur, Young Cordelia the fire mage, aspiring knight Benedict, bright-eyed mariner Zorin, and the deadly swordmaster Sophie . find themselves faced with a world in peril. Raised by former knights in hiding, they have grown up taking on different skills, each one unique and valuable to each other. Not only bonded by use of magic or mastery of a sword, they are also tied to a great destiny foretold in lost tomes they have yet to discover. Their world is slowly being cloaked in a great shadow, spreading like a sickness that they seek to overcome.

Finding themselves a decade older, escaping the ashes of yet another lost home they set sail to the western continent seeking lost knowledge and new friends. Meanwhile Lord Palluss dark army grows increasingly more powerful. Furthering the stretch of a powerful hand with the addition of a mysterious and cruel dark cleric serving an evil queen of death and commanding legions of dragons.

As our heroes seek to free the world they find themselves facing their greatest challenges within themselves and for some that means taking the bravest of actions.