About Kingdom in Flames – A Fateful Journey
Book main hero – Yost is a young man who lives in the city of Antor with his uncle. One day opportunity kicks in the door and Yost became mercenary with the simple looking task, but he doesn’t yet know that upcoming journey will greatly change his life and uncover some dark secrets about him.
Yost and his uncle Verenor will lead their hirer Belatriss Devon, the sorceress from Berden to her home city. On the way to their destination group will face a lot of difficulties, some of them leading to painful loss. Near the end of the road to Berden Verenor transfers to the Yost mysterious amulet and advise him to find a man called Rowan of Alren just before he forced to separate from the group. It’s beginning to look clear that some powerful forces are also searching for that amulet.
Meanwhile, Lord Steward Rowan of Alren in the capital city Tar Verona is trying to solve multiple problems of Renoran kingdom having hard conversations with king Taren of Korter who is still too young to rule by his own. After a failed assassination attempt in the Tar Verona castle Rowan decides to visit his former friend duke Zalner who may be after this plot. Rowan and his man travel to Eritida to meet Duke, but the conversation didn’t go well from the start. Zalner informs Rowan that while he was away king Taren was killed but duke wasn’t part of it. Rowan now is supposed to head back to the capital and convene the Council of Nine to elect a new King.
Yost and Belatriss have almost reached their destination – Croverton magic School in the city of Berden. In abandoned village they meet a masked man who introduces himself by name Faceless. He is a dark magician who is searching for Yosts amulet. After the fight, Yost wins by pure luck, and they finally reach Berden. In magic school Yost is treated as a guest, but Curator of Croverton after hearing about amulet become suspicious and asks Yost to meet with him and talk confidentially. Curator refused to answer Yosts questions and acts nervously. After pointless as Yost thinks interaction with Curator, he goes to his room. Later at night he can’t sleep and decided to explore school alone. Yost finds a strange, magic sphere in one of the halls. After he touches its surface ancient spirit Yurol takes control over the Yosts mind for a short moment but amulet stops spirit and looks it inside the amulet. From now Yurol and Yost are bonded together. It increases Yosts physical power and regeneration. Yurol begs Yost to run away from school because magicians will soon find what happened and will try to exterminate Yurol together with Yost. They run away with dozens of magicians on their back and escape from the school.
At the royal court of Tar Verona rulers of nine duchies are gathered to elect a new king of Renoran. Rowan is also participating in the court politics, trying to help his close friend Duchess Elila of the Korter-Occle family to claim the throne. After long debates and some secret agreements Elila becomes the Queen. While lords were cheering their new Queen, an urgent message was delivered to the court – an army is on its way to the city. Rowan gathers soldiers and lords to lead the defence of the besieged city.
Apparently Yost arrives to Tar Verona only to find out what grandiose battle is about to begin. He meets a dwarf called Procor who helps Yost find the way to the city walls. They showed up at the moment when a huge part of the wall falls down by a spell cast by Faceless who is helping to besiege the city. Yost founds Rowan dead but with Yurols power brings him back to life. Together, they reach the harbor and leave the capital on ships. Tar Verona now is fallen into enemy hands.
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Author Bio:
Born in Latvia, Daugavpils in 2000s. I’ve been into books since I was a kid, especially fantasy books. When I was 20, I started writing my first book. Favorite writers are J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher Paolini, Brandon Sanderson and Mark Lawrence.