In a tiny school for Magi in a corner of the world, an orphan named Tal shows great talents, and is adopted by the leader of the mages of the Land as his son and potential heir to the Hawk Amulet that marks the strongest mage.
In the battered streets of a major city, the street urchin Stret comes into power attempting to defend his family from the dangers around them. Greed and fear drive him to the dark power of Chaos, and an independence stolen by force.
In time, the outside world drags both of them out of their quiet training and throws them into conflict, as the leaders of the Chaos Magi make their first incursion into the Land in many years. Amidst the conflict, Tal’s adopted father dies, and he comes into the inheritance of an ancient mage named the Hawk Lord, and learns he is the descendant of that mage – and the true heir to his power!
But that Hawk Lord had a brother he waged war upon, and Stret is that mage’s descendant, the new Swarm Lord. Fate has marked them as the Children of the Twain, and whether they will it or not, fate condemns them to resolve their ancestors’ battle.
Children of the Twain was actually started after the next book I’ll be blurbing out, but was finished long beforehand. It is the only one of my completed works to have any significant portion of it written by hand – the first five thousand words or so were written in high school calculus class.
Children is a prophecy driven epic fantasy, though neither of the two main characters overly likes that they are bound by prophecy and both fight against it along the way. Epic battles, mage duels, and a little bit of romance mixed together to make the only one of my novels I actually regard as potentially being Young Adult – most of my characters are easily into their twenties and thirties, but Tal finishes the book at barely eighteen years old.
(I also think it was in Children of the Twain where myhabit of my major characters ending up in desperate need of a shrink by the end of the book really found itself codified)
Namaste,
Glynn Stewart
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