Last week, he didn't know he had a family. Now he's trying to save the world from them.Maru was raised in isolation in a monastery, convinced he was a foundling. Then a glamorous foreign magician appears. He claims to be an emissary of Maru's father, none other than the Premier, who has sent this trusted intimate to fetch his secret son home to the capital. A more cynical person might wonder if there's a catch, and a more cynical person would be correct: the Premie...

A group of roommates has been called upon to save their city, but forget the fact that they don't know how. These people have jobs, and those dishes won't do themselves.Several thousand years ago, the first people on the continent disappeared to an individual. The humans, elves, and sebus who moved in since found something better than treasure in the ruins: a language that can make objects obey, their nature change. They call this power wizardry.Jendaiar Ph...

The difference between justice and revenge may come down to having a friend.The Tabbaqeran Empire is defended by the Scolate, governed by the Illiumate, guided by the Hakam; its people worship a thousand-thousand gods. But there are none more revered than the masters of martial arts who serve as living cages to the Archetypes of War, primal spirits created by Chaos before the dawn of time to destroy the mortal world.A complex class system holds Qanath back from her chosen c...

They failed the people they swore to serve, but it's themselves who were most changed. The Sight itself won't let them pass the blame.Almost no one is where they were supposed to be; the people standing at their shoulders aren't the allies they expected or planned for. It seems, though, that everyone has found the people they can trust and the mission they were meant to see through. Dyafer and the Vriomeh are ready to face down the villain on his border. Sparud is ...

Everywhere, mages dance on the bitter scapegoat's strings.The civil war so long expected in Feinzad is here, but the insurgents aren't dying for their own cause anymore. Horus fights to save his cause, as well as his king and the mentor he loves. It would be so much less stressful if they weren't in danger alongside him.While Dyafer sits idle in the city she hasn't realized that she conquered, Mairid spins his webs. He isn't aware he was long since trapped ...

The villain is dead, long live the villain!The Complex holds its own against the traitor's forces on the border. Reality is starting to catch up with them, however. There was a second bottle, and what those bottles contained implicated more than just the one person known to come in contact with the liquid within. All mages' abilities are mutating, and they have no idea where their powers end, what logical restraints there are on the reach of their imaginations. Mos...

Alia and her friends got what they came for, but Zaeldroug is under siege and their plan didn't stretch past the Mage-Killer. They know there's a traitor in their ranks, so going back to the Complex is a gamble. That all the war and death is the doing of one of them is the only thing they know, including what the little bottle of mysterious liquid does.At the Complex, Dyafer's plan to unite Congress bears fruit, and she's able to send mages to investigate Pathmelon and New Towtiel....

30 years ago, a stranger sat down to have a drink at a small-town inn…When 2 townsfolk are maimed by unknown means trying to help the drunken stranger up to bed, the Holy Sanctuary's crack detectives get called in. Their suspect is happy to explain; he blames a high-court faerie prince, and he's keen to tell them how they became friends. No one else has seen the faerie, but he pulls off tricks human wizards can't. Either the faerie is real, their suspect is the gre...

They blew up the old system. Their alliances, friendships, and commitments. But the war didn't come to an end.At the Complex, the Lahar and Atsises are prisoners. Being forced to flee her home in the company of a man she believed twelve hours ago was plotting her death is the best thing that's happened to Dyafer in months, but it begs questions. She has a war to wage and a world to save, but how and where and with what army?She isn't the only mage ready to ...

Civilization may go up in flames if a group of people who hate each other can't learn to be friends.The 3,000-year-old Barrachite Empire is in decline. A vestigial aristocracy worries about debt while the emperor bends the knee to trade cartels. Modern Barracheh is still the mightiest civilization in the area, but they no longer birth conquerors or visionaries. No one is building monuments anymore like the massive pyramids near every older city.Sathriel has...