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Kellen Tavadon, child of the Arch-Mage Lycaelon, thought he recognized the way the world worked well. His father, leading the wise and benevolent Council of Mages, safeguarded and guided the individuals of the Golden City of the Bells. Young Mages in training-all men, for females were unfit to practice magic-memorized the elaborate information on High Magic and aspired to chairs on the council.
Then he found the forbidden Catalogs of Wild Magic-or have they find him? The three slim volumes woke Kellen to the extensive world beyond your City's isolating wall surfaces. Their Magic had not been dead, strangled by regulations. It felt just like a living thing, guided by the hearts and thoughts of those who used it and benefited from it.
Questioning everything he has known, Kellen discovers way too many of the City's dark secrets. Banished, with the Outlaw Hunt on his heels, Kellen invokes Wild Magic-and locates himself running for his life with a unicorn at his side.
Kellen's life changes almost faster than they can understand or acknowledge. Rescued by way of a unicorn, healed by a female Wild Mage who understands more about Kellen than anyone beyond your City should, get together Elven royalty and Elven warriors, and plunged into a world where the mysterious beings he has learned all about as abstract concepts are flesh and bloodstream creatures-Kellen both revels in and concerns his new liberty.
Especially once he learns about Demons. He'd always thought they were another abstract concept-a stand-in for ultimate evil. But if centaurs and dryads are real, then Demons surely are as well. And the thing all the Mages of the City decided on was that training Wild Magic corrupted a Mage. Transformed him into a Demon. Would that be Kellen's fate?
Deep in Obsidian Pile, the Demons are holding out. Since their beat in the last great War, they've been biding their time, sowing the seed products of distrust and discontent between their individuals and Elven opponents. Soon now, when the Demons surge to make conflict, you will see no alliance between High and Wild Magic to stand against them. And everything the entire world will participate in the Endarkened.
