Imagine a world standing parallel to our own, yet unreachable from it. Unreachable, yes, but which is nonetheless profoundly affected by events that take place here, and vice versa. Two worlds that are inextricably linked though they may never be aware of it. This relationship across the boundary of worlds may may make sense of inexplicable happenings in our own world while events in our world are felt as ripples in the the world in which The Star Stone is set.
In a distant and well-nigh forgotten time, the mighty and transcendent beings, Thakragg and Krakor, were incarcerated in the remote ice prisons of Norderakk and Kalnerakk. After the passing of epochs, their ice bonds which have held them fast so long, are thawing.
Originally, Thakragg, then Krakor—names given these mighty beings of another realm after their corruption—desired power and with that power they thought they could affect the greatest good in the world, but when once attained, the corruption was thorough and so an ancient world sank into the first Shadow Age—a time of great grief and suffering, and the effects of which will even now ripple out into our own world across the great ocean of space and time.
Read here for an example of how events in one world reverberate into the other...
The decision was therefore made that they should be bound in the great ice prisons of the world in the two remotest regions of the world wherein they could contemplate their folly for an indefinite period of time spanning untold ages of men. This judgment was passed at the behest of the Twelve, properly called the Zalladdria Thalladrimm—appearing as 12 standing stones but that are far more than they appear to the eye of man.
They have stood quietly since time out of mind in the coastal town of Cornburn where they now stand overlooking the great Adrax Sea, their meaning long forgotten. Unnoticed by most who now pass them by, their true origin lies in a remote world that has long since passed away, and in the remote past, they exerted immeasurable power—a power originally harnessed by the Theleia Stone, a mystical gemstone of colossal potency which was able to capture the power of the Twelve, enabling them to regulate the order of the world.
The Theleia Stone, however, came to be lost long ago, seemingly by a series of coincidences engineered by the imprisoned Thakragg and Krakor through their imperceptible cunning. By the very same cunning, they were even able to set wheels in motion that would result in the warming of the world just enough that their great bonds of ice may begin to melt in a distant time when the power of the Twelve may be so weekly felt in the world that they would be not able to impede their breaking forth into the world once more to bring it under their domination.
In the small coastal town of Cornburn where the Twelve stand, there lives Thengolis, a young native of the town, who has grown weary of the place of his birth and wishes to set off for other lands—a desire considered unnatural by his fellow townsfolk who regard staying in the place of one’s birth indefinitely as the right and honourable thing to do. All it takes is a chance encounter with Jangel Lampstone, seemingly nothing more than a wandering beer merchant, to turn his world upside down when this itinerant man shows him how his life is inextricably linked to the Twelve and to that distant world from which they came. The desire for travel that burns inside him has seemingly been planted there by a higher power. A power that has apparently selected Thengolis to find the Theleia Stone.
The quest he must undertake is of epic proportions. He must cross seas and wander far over remote lands to recover the long-lost Theleia Stone. Only with its being restored to the Twelve may they reveal themselves uncloaked to the world and bring to bear their immense power in order to avert the emergence of a second Shadow Age more dreadful than the first.
Read the first book in The Star Stone series
How will Thengolis navigate the world to locate the Theleia Stone? How will Thakragg and Krakor hinder his mission? What is the true origin of the Twelve and what of the wandering beer merchant, Jangel Lampstone? And who may he meet along the way to hinder or help him?
