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The Phantom Pathways

Deliriumofmagic

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Reads 152
Votes 19
Parts 9
Time 1h 15m

Deliriumofmagic

adventure fantasy magic monsters steampunk

The travelling merchant Melcanth always figured his days of adventuring were long behind him, until one fateful day his family rescues an amnesiac stranger named Locke from the snow, a mysterious young man gifted with an extrodinary power. This chance encounter sets off a catastrophic chain of events that will alter the lives of Melcanth's family forever.

Embroiled in a grand conspiracy, they are forced into a desperate journey that will take them across Eisendaile, a kingdom ruled by a merciless tyrant who commands the dead, The Machine Empire of Nazvelt, a hovering collective of clockwurk airship cities, and even to the fearsome burning spires of The Ashbringer. A journey that will plunge them into the middle of a war that threatens to tear his family, and the world itself, apart.

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