Thus, being Gifted isn’t necessarily a good thing. A device is affixed to the neck of the offender removing your skills, and dark lines creep across your face – disfiguring you (and also identifying you) – for life. At the schools for the Gifted, if you don’t learn to express and control your Essence by the time of the Trials, or if you commit behavioral violations, you are made into a Shadow, and stripped of your ability to use Essence. Teens Davian, Wirr and Asha all bear the tattoo of the Gifted, or those who can use magic in different ways.
We next meet three friends who become the main actors in the remainder of the book. This Prologue also tells us that the forces of good and evil will be clearly working behind the scenes throughout the rest of the story. (Fortunately, there is a fan wiki online to help.) It begins with a Prologue that sets up an epic battle between two characters named Tal’kamar and Aarkein Devaed – we don’t learn more about them until much later. Illustration by Dominick Saponaro.This first book of a fantasy trilogy is almost 700 pages, in the course of which there are a large number of characters introduced. Begin the journey now!Ĭover design by Lauren Panepinto. The ebook is on sale now and the hardcover is available for preorder now, release date November 8, 2016. To the west, a young man whose fate is intertwined with Davian’s wakes up in the forest, covered in blood and with no memory of who he is…Īnd in the far north, an ancient enemy long thought defeated begins to stir. But when Davian discovers he wields the forbidden power of the Augurs, he sets into motion a chain of events that will change everything. Now, those who once served them – the Gifted – are spared only because they have accepted the rebellion’s Four Tenets, vastly limiting their powers.Īs a Gifted, Davian suffers the consequences of a war lost before he was even born. It has been twenty years since the god-like Augurs were overthrown and killed. THE SHADOW OF WHAT WAS LOST ( US | UK | AUS) is a classic tale of power and destiny that fantasy fans won’t want to miss:
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