Eternal Dusk Part I
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"What is the Light Mages' greatest weakness?" Mother asked Astrid. "The evil hidden in their own hearts."
She raised a hand, and the line of blood began to glow with a sharp, black light.
"Do you know what a Black Mage's greatest strength is, Astrid?"
Astrid shook her head, flinching as several more chunks of ceiling came tumbling down in all directions. Mother raised a pinky finger and blasted a piece falling toward her into smithereens with a wall of black ether. Only Mother remained without the dome. Why wasn't she coming in?
"Our greatest strength is the good in ours."
Welcome to Averium, a world in which every choice for good or ill alters the fabric of magic itself.
Astrid is a Black Mage, among the last of her kind, sworn to seek vengeance on the Light Mages who slaughtered her people based on the color of their blood--and their attempt to overthrow all of Averium. Her life's purpose is to bring the kingdom to its knees, a single Mage against an enemy as numberless as the sands of the sea. But how far is she willing to go to find revenge? Will she sink to the level of her adversaries? Or are there lines even she is unwilling to cross?
Teresa is a paradox, a timid half-medusa who has spent the last decade trapped in an old church in fear of her life. Though she has no desire for revenge herself, she joins Astrid in her quest out of devotion. To her, the world is new and beautiful, but also frightening and complex. She must fight to find her place in a nation that sees her very existence as a threat.
Cyrus is the ArchKnight, chosen by the Goddess of Light and Unity, sworn to protect The Realms at any cost. Twelve years ago, he ordered the atrocity that brought about the end of the decades-long Great War with the Black Mages, killing Astrid's mother in the process. Now, his worst fears are confirmed: A Black Mage has been spotted on the outskirts of Averium. He will do whatever it takes to protect his people's fragile peace, even if he must cross further ethical lines. What remains to be seen is what it will cost him to do so.
Eternal Dusk Part I is a story that tells both sides of a conflict in which no party is entirely innocent, but no misdeed without its reason. Will the people of Averium find their moral footing amid their biases and shifting values? Or will The Realms fall into greater chaos?
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