About Blightmage: A Progression/Cultivation Epic (Kataklysm Book 1) by T.R. Magnus
Embrace the (B)light…
It has been fifty years since the sun died over Ashathar.
Blaike was born in the blight. As one of the “touched” he is devoid of power.
He is forbidden from following the Lightweaver Path.
The “touched” still serve the brightlands, working the mines to extract sunstone; to deliver it to the Lightweavers, the saviors, preservers, and rulers of Ashathar.
The largest sunstone ever extracted from the mines has been found. It could empower the brightlands for months. When it is discovered that someone stole the sunstone’s power, Blaike is exiled from the brightlands. Was he really to blame? Can he survive the blight? Or, is there a larger threat than the Lightweavers ever realized that could destroy Ashathar once and for all?
Ming Yue is the daughter of a brewer. The Ming clan’s elixirs have supported those on the Lightweaver path for a half-century.
Yue’s twin brother was taken by the blighted when they were children. But when she’s denied access to the Lightweaver path, since she is not the first-born child of her clan, Yue’s father tasks her to create an elixir that might save her brother from the blight.
He’s the only chance the Ming clan has to remain prominent amongst the brightborn, to produce a Lightweaver who might protect Ashathar for years to come.
But there is no guarantee that Yue’s brother has survived among the blighted. Would he remember her at all? Is the mysterious figure, found in the blight, truly her brother–or is he someone else, someone who might challenge the dominance of the Lightweavers and the security of Ashathar?
Blightmage is the first book in Kataklysm, an action packed epic progression fantasy series. Fans of progression/cultivation epic fantasies, unique magic systems, and immersive epics like Will Wight’s Cradle series or Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive where the hero starts weak but gains power over time will also enjoy this expansive saga.
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Author Bio:
Theophilus Monroe is a fantasy author with a knack for real-life characters whose supernatural experiences speak to the pangs of ordinary life. After earning his Ph.D. in Theology, he decided that academic treatises that no one will read (beyond other academics) was a dull way to spend his life. So, he began using his background in religious studies to create new worlds and forms of magic–informed by religious myths, ancient and modern–that would intrigue readers, inspire imaginations, and speak to real-world problems in fantastical ways.
When Theo isn’t exploring one of his fantasy lands, he is probably playing with one of his three sons, or pumping iron in his home-gym, which is currently located in a 40-foot shipping container.
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