Seed of glory sown in sorrow,
Take as father, give as son;
Alien, with faithless marrow,
Seize a mandate seen by none.
PURCHASE
A Sea Sought in Song, first volume in “The Heir and the Herald” epic fantasy tetralogy by Austin Gunderson, is AVAILABLE ON KINDLE, IN PAPERBACK, AND ON AUDIBLE from Creative Texts.
Wrath and Crimson Rime, second volume in “The Heir and the Herald” epic fantasy tetralogy by Austin Gunderson, is AVAILABLE ON KINDLE AND IN PAPERBACK from Creative Texts.
Loose the Sealed Tongue, third volume in “The Heir and the Herald” epic fantasy tetralogy by Austin Gunderson, is AVAILABLE ON KINDLE AND IN PAPERBACK from Creative Texts.
A Sea Sought in Song
A Sea Sought in Song is the first full-length novel in “The Heir and the Herald” tetralogy by Austin Gunderson. It is AVAILABLE ON KINDLE, IN PAPERBACK, AND ON AUDIBLE from Creative Texts. This is high noir fantasy at its most epic.
The savior of legend is a clueless barbarian. The woman who spent her life preparing for his advent is having second thoughts. Can they overcome their differences long enough to avoid snuffing out civilization?
The World of Arlam
Beyond Outer Darkness there hangs a beryl in the black: Arlam, a planet like Earth, yet also unlike. The ancients forged links between these two worlds. Now, with so much blood under the proverbial bridge, only a select few may access the forgotten rhomic portals. And even fewer have what it takes to make it back unbroken.
“A place of extremes—of both dream and nightmare. A land vast beyond imagining, ancient beyond reckoning, harsh beyond foreboding, beautiful beyond describing.”
—Henry Conrad
The Power of the Void
The unique magic system of Arlam allows its practitioners to manipulate their surroundings in ways both subtle and forceful by activating rhoma: a crystalline substance capable of opening holes in the very fabric of reality, and thus of binding things together. There’s no seal like that of a vacuum. This process is replicable, scalable, and practicably applicable to fields as varied as communication, transportation, engineering, rhetoric, and warfare.
But for all its predictability, no one really knows why it works. And that’s an unsettling thought.
Arlam Online 