The Mage Of Darkness
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Last published Fri, Sep 2, 2016
Ten elder families and Aaron Thorne is the son of the head of the elder family of Thorne, Draem. A black sheep because his magic will never take the form of lightning and shunned and banished from the family because his birth caused the death of his mother. Immediately taken to an orphanage in the slums and raised on the streets of Tarliim's East Ward in the corrupt country of Aelyn.
But not all is as it seems.
Everything has a place to hide when it gets dark.
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