Masks of Eternity · A self-contained, mind-expanding epic fantasy
Magnus was a dashing, dramatic boy, wild with the joy of life and magic — until magic tore his childhood apart. So he ran, and for years he refused to look back.
Now his past has come to find him. To survive it, Magnus has to face the wounded child still inside him — and find his way back to magic, and to himself.
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Epic fantasy · Mature themes · Self-contained
A boy who loved magic more than anything in the world — until it took everything from him.
Magnus was a dashing, dramatic boy, never more alive than when magic was near. Then magic tore his childhood apart, and the joy went out of him. So he ran — and for years he hid behind other faces, other lives, anything rather than look back at the boy he used to be.
This is a book about the masks people wear, the selves they run from, and what it costs to finally take one off — and it walks, without flinching, into genuinely hard places to get there.
Magnus isn't the only one carrying an old wound. His oldest friend, Tyrus, carries one just as deep — and when the past catches up with them both, they answer it in opposite ways. One goes looking for a way out. The other has to find a reason to keep fighting.
Some wounds you spend your whole life outrunning. Some you finally have to turn and face.
A magic system unlike any you've read — grown, not cast
And every one of them is illegal to grow without permission. In this land, magic isn't a birthright or a spell you learn — it's a crop, sacred and rationed, guarded by a religious Order that decided long ago exactly who is allowed to touch it. Which is fine, until the day the rules stop working.
Tap a card. A magic grown, licensed, and rationed by a church is a magic full of promises — and Magnus believed every one of them, right up until the day magic took everything from him.
At the Ceiling of the World, one man has not been seen in a very long time
His name is Elazar. The last magician left in the world — so powerful that an entire religion was built to worship him, so hidden that scarcely anyone living has laid eyes on him. He keeps to the summit of a great mountain at the Ceiling of the World, and he does not come down. To reach him you cross the Forest of Shadows — black bark, blood-red leaves, and things that do not welcome visitors — if you survive the climb at all.
Who is he, really? Why would the most powerful man in the world hide from it? What does he know that a whole Order has spent generations guarding in his name?
The higher Magnus climbs toward him, the sharper those questions get — and the less certain he becomes that some legends should ever be reached at all.
"The most powerful man alive. The last magician in the world. A mystery an entire religion was built around — and still cannot solve."
Four questions you will not be able to put down
The best fantasy plants questions in your head and refuses to answer them until you've earned it. Here are the ones this book opens early — and the reason you'll keep climbing.
Magnus put his faith in magic and its mysteries. Tyrus, betrayed by the people who preached them, put his in cold, provable science. When life breaks them both, they reach for opposite answers — and the book refuses to tell you which one saves you.
He was the greatest magician alive — and he walked away from everyone who needed him, up a mountain, into silence. What happened up there? What did the world ask of him that turned out to be too much?
He wields a magic that obeys none of the six mushrooms and none of the Order's rules. That's supposed to be impossible. And if the Order's whole doctrine is wrong about that — what else have they been wrong about?
They didn't outlaw the mushrooms to keep anyone safe — control never really is about safety. So what does the Order know about magic that it has spent generations making very sure no one else does?
At least one of these is already itching. That feeling doesn't go away until you've read the book.
If any of this sounds like your taste, Masks of Eternity was written for it:
The book that opens the world
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“…renders the reader immersed in another world, unable to stop reading… Well done, good sir!”— John Fowler, Amazon
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