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Tales of the Aether: Book 1

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Atharias is a world full of equal parts mystical wonder as well as dark secrets. Many claim to know it well only to fall short of the measure when it counts. None of us truly know what makes it so. The Cataclysm saw to that.
The earth shook and cracked. Seas churned. Air was full of smoke or vapor enough to kill what breathed. Plants were hostile more than they are now. The beasts? You don't wanna know. Dragons are the only things left from that age.

The deep past is a tricky thing. We can't ignore it, but we can't let it rule our future either.  What I'm about to tell you is one of the Old Tales. About folk who made mistakes just as much as they done right, even when it cost them dearly. A Tale that reveals what happens when one delves so far into the past, they are consumed by it.

Prey tell, the Tale of one who saw the face of that dark place which rules us now. A mystic who gave a chance at life to us now at the cost of what was.All Rights Reserved

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