Resultados para "Rook" en Fantasía oscura

The walls that kept the darkness out are beginning to fall. One hundred and fifty years ago, the Sundering drowned Avoni in darkness, twisting every living thing into a nightmare. The only survivors live under the Aurora Shrouds, mystical barriers shielding isolated towns from the horrors outside. When a Vanguard Courier, uncovers evidence that the Shrouds are dying, he is forced into a perilous journey through the Sundered Lands, where he uncovers long-buried secrets, binding Avoni's fate to a treaty with a forgotten race.

He is a body snatcher. He kills by taking over the bodies of his victims, leaving no blood or weapons at the scene of the crimes. Disillusioned by the loss of his Catholic faith, Rook seeks answers to his unique ability and finds that heaven and hell are not what he was taught to believe. Now, in their way, angels and demons seek to head off the calamity that Rook is quickly becoming because for each body he takes and each soul he breaks, he is becoming more and more Fractured.

The laws that confine men have been swept aside, and the provinces have declared their independence. War had come to Zoviya, leaving those alone to fend for themselves. All the while, the Earth quakes, warning of magics long hidden in ancient places. Unhinged magics are taking hold of the innocent. Ancient plots are unraveling. In every corner of the Empire, ghosts stir and scratch at the stains long ago salted into the earth. The Vastness is coming.

As Leger, Barok, Geart, and Dia face an empire growing ever more aware of the nation they rebuild, all eyes and armies are drawn to the East and the rise of a new enemy. Left unguarded, the dim flecks of magic lingering in the swamps and dark places begin to spill free. Struggling to survive, the once-isolated people of Enhedu must travel to places where the mapmakers have lied in order to confront the servants of a dark power. While beneath a broken mountain, a river of silver calls those who can hear to wealth beyond measure.

The dark forest hid them from their destroyers. The matriarch of the forest wept for a century over their murder. The priests rewrote the songs and rhymes until the world forgot them and the conquerors abandoned their watch.

Take a meander from places labeled normal to a world that clatters, slinks, and drips. Looks aren't everything and nothing is as it seems. Along the Elizabeth River in Norfolk stands an unassuming diner where love and misery are on the menu. Come for breakfast, stay for the pie. You might never want to leave. The Dark Reflections series is a shared world based on the art by Jeff Lee Johnson in which each author has contributed a single character to the telling of the tale behind the images.

Das Studium am sagenumwobenen Aconite Institute hat Runa verändert: Sie ist sich ihrer wahren Identität bewusst geworden. Und sie ist ihrem Mentor Kyril nähergekommen. Doch Runas Fähigkeit, als Schattenspringerin die Seelen Verstorbener ins Jenseits zu geleiten, ruft dunkle Mächte auf den Plan: Zuerst wird sie des Instituts verwiesen. Dann verschwindet Kyril auf einer Wanderung durch die schottischen Lowlands spurlos.

Runa sehnt sich nach einem Neuanfang. Ein Studienplatz am Aconite Institute scheint daher perfekt. Hier kann sie endlich ihre ewigen Albträume und den Streit mit ihrer Mutter hinter sich lassen, die Runa einfach nicht verraten will, wer ihr Vater ist.  Doch kaum in Edinburgh angekommen, werden Runas Träume immer schlimmer – und realistischer. Schließlich erfährt sie von ihrem Mentor, dem viel zu arroganten Kyril, den Grund dafür: Sie ist eine Schattenspringerin und kann die Seelen Sterbender ins Jenseits geleiten.