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Buch (Softcover): Belletristik
The Shards Of Aethelgard
A Chronicle Of Star And Shadow
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Independently Published Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35160299
EAN: 9798188089177
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Zustellung: Fr, 09.10.2026
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CHF 22.70
Beschreibung
For three hundred years, the kingdom of Aethelgard thrived on a beautiful, cosmic lie. Perched within ivory towers and illuminated by glowing, magical canals, its people worshiped the Great Star-Forge-a monumental engine that harnessed pure, celestial starlight to banish the night. Under the reign of the golden kings, darkness was treated as a spiritual disease, and those who wielded it or were touched by it were cast out into the fringes of society. Among the disgraced were the Shadow-Blades. , elite protectors discarded once the realm believed the dark had been entirely conquered. But the cosmos demands an equilibrium. Light cannot exist without a shadow to define it. Our chronicle begins at the absolute breaking point of this fragile system. Act I (Chapters 1-20) opens on the eve of the Umbral Eclipse. , an apocalyptic cosmic infection that snuffs out the Star-Forge and shatters the core pillars of the kingdom. As the city burns under the assault of Lord Malakor's Umbral Vanguard. , Cyra, a brilliant but sheltered scholar of the Grand Archive, escapes into the night. She carries with her the Celestial Compass. , a legendary artifact containing five empty rings meant to hold the fractured anchors of reality: the cosmic Shards. To survive the wilderness, she is forced to hire Kaelen, a cynical, disillusioned former Shadow-Blade who fights not for glory, but out of sheer survival instinct. As the epic progresses into Act II (Chapters 21-40), the narrative expands into a grand, multi-front quest across the broken realms of Aethelgard. Guided by the shifting holographic maps of the compass, Cyra and Kaelen must hunt down the scattered fragments of creation. Their journey takes them from the eerie, whispering depths of ancient ironwood forests to the lawless pirate havens of Port Obsidian. They recruit Lyra, a fierce rogue sea-captain, and dive into the gravity-defying, submerged ruins of the Sunken Kingdom of Meridia. to claim the Shard of Tides. Later, in the suffocating heat of the Ignis Wastes. , they ally with Brokk, a gruff dwarven smith, to infiltrate a volcanic stronghold and claim the Hearth Shard. Along the way, the stakes become deeply personal; Kaelen is infected with the agonizing Shadow-rot. , forcing Cyra to use raw cosmic magic to literally reforge his body, leaving him permanently scarred with glowing, silver-celestial veins. The story takes a dark, devastating turn in Act III (Chapters 41-60), titled The Shadow Ascendant. After a freezing, perilous expedition into the Frost-Spire Peaks. to secure the Shard of Winter. , the heroes arrive at the Citadel of Dawn. -the last remaining bastion of mortal life. In a tragic confrontation in the deepest vaults of the fortress, Malakor intercepts them. The containment fields collapse, the fifth fragment-the Shard of Eclipse. -is corrupted, and the sky fractures into a permanent, suffocating violet twilight. The heroes are scattered, isolated, and pushed into a dark night of the soul, forced to confront their deepest fears and the horrifying realization that the old empire was fueled by the hidden sacrifice of living souls.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Jhor Soto
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 54