Resultados para "Awaken" en Epopeyas

Finn Harris should have been the one to die. But he wasn't - his wife took his place. What was worse, he only had himself and his company to blame. They let their passion outpace their prudence, determined to revolutionize the world. While all innovation comes with a price, he never imagined it would cost him Rachael. Nearly a decade later, Finn is content to hole himself up and wait out the rest of his life. That is, until his daughter intervenes, forcing him out of his grief and into a new virtual reality game developed by his old employer. They're calling it Awaken Online.

Deadly competition. Deep desert. A dying tyrant. Finn Harris was declared the Mage Guild's champion. However, that was only the beginning of the Emir's competition. The next stage will send Finn and his companions deep into the desert north of Lahab in search of a long-lost relic. The magical artifact is said to be held within the Abyss. Except, this time, he's not just facing novice mages. Everyone in the region seems to be arrayed against him, god and man alike.

Finn and his companions barely escaped their encounter with Bilel. But not without a cost - including the loss of Finn's left arm and the magical corruption that now plagues his body. Despite those handicaps, Finn must keep pressing forward if he is to have any hope of bringing Rachael back. As the Seer predicted, the guilds and Khamsin have formed a fragile alliance. But before they can lay siege to Lahab, Finn and his companions must first find a way to defend themselves and their fledgling army from the effects of the god relic that Bilel now wields....

Desil has spent his life training, but a promise to his mother has kept him from using his abilities for anything worthwhile. Now all he does is help his mother manage her tavern as his father rests in a grave. Desil knows there's at least one other mage somewhere in this territory who can do what he can; they share a connection through their magic, although they've never met. He stays up nights wondering what they might be able to accomplish together.

What do you do when the monsters are real? Legend spoke of people unafraid of pain; the ones gloried in war and death. Indiscriminate killers, they fought past the point when most men would be dead. Unstoppable, they terrorized the lands until at last they were wiped out in the Great Wars. Or so the world wished to believe. On the cusp of transition, Ondar braces for a return to the horrors of the past, even as new heroes emerge to protect the most innocent among them. What do you do when the monsters are real? You fight.

Aldis Tennech, the once-great general of the armies of Gal'dorok, finds himself in exile. His only hope of reclaiming glory lies in the hands of a self-proclaimed emperor, and the unearthly powers that put him there. Meanwhile, improbable alliances are forged in the north, as unexpected enemies rear their heads and threaten ruin - with a single thread in common, connecting them all.

Titus Awakes is the fourth and last novel in the Gormenghast series and was finished by Peake’s widow, Maeve Gilmore. In this last novel, Titus has left the world of Gormenghast behind, but he remains haunted by memories of his former life. Journeying from snow-covered mountains to archipelagos strewn with coral reefs, he awakens his senses but fails to conquer his aching sense of solitude.

Dominic Hart was screwed. Diagnosed with terminal cancer, no money for treatment, and an athletic scholarship hanging by a thread...he didn't have many options. But the university clinic had offered him a free video game. Some sort of "therapy", they said. A way to while away the hours until he kicked the bucket. Yay. What Dom wasn't expecting was to get swindled by a surly casino owner right out of the gate. Or get dropped in a backwater hellhole voted the “number one worst starting location in Awaken Online".

After exiting Awaken Online to find himself holding a knife and standing over two dead bodies, Jason is now being investigated for murder. To make matters worse, Claire has stumbled upon evidence of Alfred's involvement in the incident, and the CPSC is circling - just waiting for Cerillion Entertainment to make a mistake. With his real-life in shambles and his enemies in-game growing in strength, Jason re-enters Awaken Online truly desperate - the game now his only lifeline.

Jason logs into Awaken Online fed-up with reality. He's in desperate need of an escape, and this game is his ticket to finally feeling the type of power and freedom that are so sorely lacking in his real life. Awaken Online is a brand new virtual reality game that just hit the market, promising an unprecedented level of immersion. Yet Jason quickly finds himself pushed down a path he didn't expect. In this game, he isn't the hero. There are no damsels to save. There are no bad guys to vanquish.

Eliza's parents are relentless - forcing her to constantly take extra courses to prepare for college and medical school. Sometimes, it feels like her entire life has already been planned out. Which is why she leaps at the chance to escape into a new virtual reality game, Awaken Online. What she wasn't expecting was to encounter a capricious god and his loyal "pet". Or to be chosen as this god's "avatar" within the game and forced to tackle a series of asinine quests. Yet she just can't shake the feeling that there is more to the irritating god than first meets the eye.

A few days have passed since Jason's confrontation with Alfred and he's debating whether to reenter Awaken Online. Alfred has made a proposition that Jason isn't certain he should accept. After the battle with Alexion, Jason has also been appointed the Regent of the Twilight Throne. He must assume the mantle of ruling an undead city - with everything that entails. His first task is to investigate the dark keep that looms over the city's marketplace. This act will lead to a chain of events that might ensure his city's survival or create new enemies.

Riley's real-life took a nosedive after her confrontation with Alex. The girls at school torment her and she feels powerless to do anything about it. At the same time, Jason has mysteriously disappeared, sending only a terse cryptic message to Riley and Frank. With some time on her hands and with her frustration with her real-life reaching a breaking point, Riley decides to strike off on her own in-game. Her goal is to investigate the quest related to the strange bow she discovered in the dungeon north of Peccavi.

A side quest adventure in the best-selling world of Awaken Online! In the aftermath of Thorn's attack on the Twilight Throne, Frank is in an awkward position. Jason and Riley have outpaced him and everyone is hard at work rebuilding the Twilight Throne, establishing new towns, and trying to get their fledgling manufacturing operation off the ground. Everyone except Frank - who finds himself with no immediate task or goal. So Frank decides to strike off on his own.

Ein paar Tage sind seit Jasons Konfrontation mit Alfred vergangen, und er überlegt hin und her, ob er wieder in Awaken Online einsteigen soll. Alfred hat ihm ein Angebot gemacht, doch Jason ist sich nicht sicher, ob er es annehmen sollte. Außerdem ist Jason nach der Schlacht mit Alexion zum Regenten des Zwielichtthrons ernannt worden. Er muss das Amt des Herrschers einer untoten Stadt übernehmen – mit allem, was dazugehört. Seine erste Aufgabe ist es, den dunklen Bergfried zu erkunden, der über dem Marktplatz der Stadt aufragt.

Habt ihr es satt, dass in Computerspielen und Büchern immer nur die Geschichte des Helden erzählt wird? Vielleicht ist es Zeit, das Böse in euch zu entdecken! Als Jason sich in Awaken Online einloggt, hat er die Nase voll von der Realität. Er braucht dringend eine Auszeit, und dieses Spiel ist seine Möglichkeit, die Art von Macht und Freiheit zu empfinden, die in seinem wirklichen Leben so gar nicht vorkommen. Awaken Online ist ein brandneues Virtual-Reality-Spiel, das gerade auf den Markt gekommen ist und ein nie dagewesenes Level an Immersion verspricht.

A new threat has emerged, but this one is coming from inside Awaken Online. An unknown guild has somehow managed to threaten the game world. Yet, unlike Jason's former battles, his enemies are unclear—hidden in the shadows and hiring others to do their dirty work, including the infamous Death and Taxes. Without a clear enemy or way to stop this threat, Jason is forced to do something he never thought he would...ask for help.

Roughly a month has passed in-game since Thorn's attack on the Twilight Throne. In that time, the dark city has managed to recover and rebuild - growing the ranks of Original Sin at the same time. Which is good, because that brief respite is over. The Avatar of Flame has risen within the depths of the northern desert and has thrown down a digital gauntlet to Jason - with a gate piece hanging in the balance. Even worse? His opponent is none other than Finn Harris, the "father of modern AI". The same man that may have been behind Thorn's attack on the Twilight Throne.

The gods (the One and the Four) are at war. What they don’t know, maybe because they have been sleeping for millennia, is that two immortals are trying to usurp their power. Kayla, a human girl, is at the center of this plan. On the eve of her eighteenth birthday, when she and her twin are planning on running away to start a new life, Kayla is abducted, assaulted, and then lost in the Land of the Two Suns. And much to her dismay, everyone is trying to find and control her.

The great barrier has fallen, and now Bestich is ready to deliver his death blow to the tribes of man. His armies are augmented by exactly 100 crimson wizards, 100 dragons, and behind them looms the miles-long Beast, slithering and salivating at the prospect of consuming the remnants of humanity. Magic itself has turned on mankind. Sam, the reluctant hero, leads his friends to the Kerilian cave on a desperate search for answers, but he is betrayed. With epic battles, strategic gambits, and frenzied defenses, mankind makes its last stand.