If you suddenly had paws for hands, wings instead of arms or a tail instead of ... well if you randomly grew a tail what would you do? Consult your local psychiatrist? Not for me, the Sanatorium is the next best option. Marco Malcolm is the right wing in the first team football squad. Well at least he was. After a meeting with the ‘old pig’ his sporting endeavours have been suspended and he is forced to become a nerd, but his books aren’t the only obstacle he has to overcome on the road to repossessing the title of a jock. A war is coming to Earth and he is somehow stuck in the middle of it all. He must learn to harness his power before it is too late. Animal or not he must keep his enemy at bay. After all this is the duty of Semblance.
Drecue is a young half-elf that is born without a father at the fall of the New Aeolyne Empire. Raised only by his mother and grandfather, he lived the life of a prince on an entirely different content, Elenora. Coming to the age of the age of thirty, Drecue is betrothed to an human maiden Elyzabeth. Before they could be reaquentated she is kidnapped by a ruthless cult. To protect and prevent a war between his grandfathers kingdom and her father's kingdom over honor. He takes a small band of knights along with his childhood Friend, Melenia. On this path to rescue a maiden he discovers his true destiny. Ivar, of noble blood is forced to escape at the young age of thirteen after seeing the brutal killing of his father. He, his beloved mother and older sister run to the nearby land of Elenora leaving the wrath of Adair behind. Ivar, for ten years devotes his life to the study and work of the sword to be ready for Adair. Then suddenly his mother and what was left of his family is murdered by paid bandits. With this final event, it sends Ivar on a much darker path then wanted in search for restitution for the wrongs that were done to him. Later Ivar meets up with the half-elf, Drecue and Melenia his companion. Now Ivar and his newly found friend a dark elf name Effie. Enter into a lose and brief alliance to get Elyzabeth safely home. The book is filled with races such as, Minotaur's, satyrs, trolls, immortals, and barbaric humans. This novel will put a strain on all the lives involved with the main characters. Near the end of the novel likely enemies will be forced to fight together to achieve personal goals.
Tonight, across America, countless people will embark on an adventure. They will prowl among overgrown headstones in forgotten graveyards, stalk through darkened woods and wildlands, and creep down the crumbling corridors of abandoned buildings. They have set forth in search of a profound paranormal experience and may seem to achieve just that. They are part of the growing cultural phenomenon called legend tripping. In If You Should Go at Midnight: Legends and Legend Tripping in America, author Jeffrey S. Debies-Carl guides readers through an exploration of legend tripping, drawing on years of scholarship, documentary accounts, and his own extensive fieldwork. Poring over old reports and legends, sleeping in haunted inns, and trekking through wilderness full of cannibal mutants and strange beasts, Debies-Carl provides an in-depth analysis of this practice that has long fascinated scholars yet remains a mystery to many observers. Debies-Carl argues that legend trips are important social practices. Unlike traditional rites of passage, they reflect the modern world, revealing both its problems and its virtues. In society as well as in legend tripping, there is ambiguity, conflict, crisis of meaning, and the substitution of debate for social consensus. Conversely, both emphasize individual agency and values, even in spiritual matters. While people still need meaningful and transformative experiences, authoritative, traditional institutions are less capable of providing them. Instead, legend trippers voluntarily search for individually meaningful experiences and actively participate in shaping and interpreting those experiences for themselves.
Leon of the Western Plains thought he was like any other young man. He is content learning his father's business as a hunting guide. There is nothing Leon enjoys more than being out with his father on the wide-open plains with his faithful steed and armed with his trusty bow and arrows. Life was good. Life was simple and predictable. That, however, would soon change when a mysterious young woman arrives at his family house with an unusual request. Leon, at first, rejects what the guest has to say to him. Surely this woman has the wrong person. His parents wouldn't keep secrets from him, would they? The winds of fate are not blowing in Leon's favor when a life-threatening situation happens with his family. It leaves Leon with no choice but to join forces with the mysterious young woman in a life-changing magical quest that could reshape their world.Unbeknownst to Leon, Prince Nerow of the Northern Highlands craves more power and territories. There is no denying he rules with an iron fist and dark magic. Aided by both a dark wizard and witch, he desires to rule the entire world and will slaughter any who resist. He fears no one--nothing. Who or what could stand up against Nerow's mighty magical warriors?
Ethen Coal is an ambitious young archaeologist who lands what he considers the opportunity of a lifetime. Before he embarks on his journey, he is reunited with two childhood friends, Sam and Anastasia. They agree to help him on his dangerous expedition, searching for what some consider to be nothing more than a myth called the Blood Horn. Shortly after the three friends set out for this treasure, they are confronted with dangers beyond their wildest imaginations. They stumble upon the likes of dragons, pirates, and even mermaids as misfortunes overtake them. Luckily, a strangerwho claims to be from another worldsaves their lives. And the adventure has only just begun. The further the search goes, the more Ethen suspects that the Blood Horn is not of this world and that someone will do anything to keep him from finding it. With the support of Sam and Anastasia, he fearlessly embarks on an undertaking full of danger, magic, and some living myths only to discover that what he seeks is so much more than what he imagined.
Five students at The Ashkellon School of Magic discover that they are fated to be a part of an ancient prophecy that foretells the return of dragons to their rightful place in the world; but this is only the beginning. The students must also open Temples, scattered around the world, in order to one day bring back belief in the Gods. Each of the five employs their own distinct style of magic to see their mission through. Treachery lurks around every corner as the group finds that true friendship and dedication to their task will help them overcome the mysteries of the prophecy. Come escape into a world filled with time travel, pirates, exciting battles and more in the unforgettable Through The Glass Darkly: A Dragons' Tale. M. L. Canales lives in Mackinaw City, Michigan. He is currently writing the second book in the Through The Glass Darkly series. http: //SBPRA.com/MLCanale
In 2024 X-Bios Corporation created an elemental serum capable of changing the genetics of the human race, but things are beyond the company's control. Dan and Dante Hawks find themselves in a new reality, creatures that went wrong in the experiments see the surface, wanderers and pilgrims walk on the land hunting and feeding on what remains of humanity. In the search for answers and survival they will have to ally themselves with certain people on their journey. But the enemy is beyond what they think the Origin of everything.
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