About 70 years before the High King's Sword novels, the House of Varanath fell to a Black Wizard who became overly ambitious. He and a hired army stormed the House and city to take the House and it's repository of knowledge and artifacts.
Because Richard and Amber, two of the four Chosen, called this place home, Targon and Catiana used the House as a place to store artifacts they did not want loose upon the populace of Martapa. The Black Wizard wanted to take over the Wizard council, as well as Martapa, and sought to gain these artifacts and books of knowledge for himself, some 3,000 years after the Chosen.
But the descendants of Amber and Richard were savvy in the ways of magic and had safeguards to stop any who were not allowed to take the artifacts from obtaining them. But even these could not stop the Wizard and his troops. In a last ditch effort to save the artifacts from being taken, the wife of the current lord, a gypsy by birth, cursed the library, only allowing "the blood of Varanath to open the way."
Well, the Wizard had just killed all the members of the Varanath family, save the baby in the gypsy's womb. He killed the gypsy and removed the baby, sending her away to be raised until she could learn the magic which would open the library. But the guard he sent the child away with grew to love the child and hid the child from the Wizard. He was killed for his efforts, but the child returned later to defeat the Wizard in the form of Noshi Bluecrystal, last of the line of Varanath.
This is the premise of my novel I wrote about Noshi, Sebastion Blackthorne, and Miyaca Snowbird. These three characters make cameo appearances in my High King's Sword novels, but are pivotal to some of the major character development of my main characters in the High King's Sword.
Tomorrow: Magic Item
No comments:
Post a Comment