The First Fracture
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ISBN13: 9798195456450
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 428
Weight: 1.13
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 428
Weight: 1.13
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some wounds cannot be healed by force. Some wars are decided by what the world chooses to become. In the tradition of epic fantasy that asks the largest questions - Brandon Sanderson's cosmological scope, C.S. Lewis's theological depth, Tolkien's world-bearing weight - comes a debut series that refuses to separate the spiritual from the spectacular. Jorah is a farmer on a dying plain who speaks life into dead soil. He does not know he is the center of a war that began before the world existed. Far above the mortal realm, in the Echoing Vast, a fallen celestial general named Valraeth has spent millennia building what no army could accomplish: a world that agrees with him. Not conquered. Convinced. One question at a time, one answered grief at a time, until the agreements form a network so vast and so deep it has become indistinguishable from truth. Now the network has reached stability. And Valraeth has come to test the one man whose faith, if it breaks, will prove that devotion built on anything less than desolation was never real. Jorah will lose everything. His children. His home. His land. The community that cast him out. Every reason the world offers to stop pressing his hands into the ash and saying: you are still here. He will not stop. Descending from the Radiant Host to stand beside him is Mikha Stormborn - a warrior who crossed the boundary between worlds knowing the crossing would kill him, because someone had to be present. Lyssara Veilborn was built by Valraeth to break faith in cities across the world - until the man she was sent to destroy refused to break, and the hollow she had carried her entire life finally found what it was the shape of. THE AETHRYN CHRONICLES: THE FIRST FRACTURE is an epic fantasy about the war that matters most - not the one fought with armies, but the one fought inside every person who has ever pressed their hands into the ash of their life and wondered whether anything was still listening. Perfect for readers of:
- Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive (cosmological scope, magic as covenant)
- C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy (spiritual warfare given physical form)
- Frank Peretti's This Present Darkness (celestial conflict woven through human lives)
- Tolkien's The Silmarillion (war between worship and rebellion, mythological in scale)
- Ted Dekker's Circle Series (faith tested to its absolute limit) Epic celestial fantasy Spiritual warfare Character-driven Theologically rich Series opener
- C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy (spiritual warfare given physical form)
- Frank Peretti's This Present Darkness (celestial conflict woven through human lives)
- Tolkien's The Silmarillion (war between worship and rebellion, mythological in scale)
- Ted Dekker's Circle Series (faith tested to its absolute limit) Epic celestial fantasy Spiritual warfare Character-driven Theologically rich Series opener
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