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Dawnbringer - Lightborn: The Complete Saga
Hardcover
Publisher: At the Wellspring Publishing
Published: Apr 8 2024
Pages: 806
Weight: 2.34
Height: 1.94 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Lightborn is the standalone centerpiece of the Dawnbringer series of novels and the narrative heart of the Tales of Irándiel. This world is the sole artifact of my mythopoetic imagination and a lifelong fruit of both love and wonder, born of the desire that through the mysterious power of imagination and story the primordial light may shine to give solace and consolation, to stir our hearts to awe and lighthearted gratitude, and to awaken the compassion that embraces the world in both its brokenness and its beauty.
This is not a fantasy novel in the contemporary sense, but an act of contemplation through storytelling, taking its place firmly within the age-old tradition of exploring the meaning of reality through myth. It is a way of enacting, through the work of mythopoeia, both philosophia and theologia. It is a way of exploring, in other words, both the love of wisdom and the mystery of God.
This does not mean, of course, that the world and its characters and the dramatic events of the narrative do not exist for their own sake and in their own right. Rather, I have fallen in love with them again and again over the years, and it is my humble hope that upon entering into the world of Irándiel through these pages, you too may come to love these persons so like ourselves in their joys and their sorrows, in their hopes and their struggles, and may see refracted through the prism of this co-created world, lovingly woven in detail both epic and intimate, the beauty of the real world that we all share-a world bathed in the radiance of the light at the origin of all things and the love that has sung the universe into existence.
When Eldarien returns to his homeland after many years away-burdened by the awareness that he has perpetrated great evil at the hands of an Empire whose knight he has become-he encounters a continent riven by strife and war and threatened by creatures even more horrifying, born of the very darkness itself. He wishes to lay aside the sword, to leave behind a past marked with violence and bloodshed, but he also longs to aid his people against the forces that endanger their very existence. And such a path he cannot walk alone, facing obstacles both within and without, and he finds given to him both the light that he wishes to serve and friends to share the journey. All the while the land that he loves slides inexorably into conflict, into what shall be known henceforth as the War of Darkness, and he and those to whom he is joined are called upon to share the fate of their people, looking forward in hope to the promised coming of dawn after darkest night.
Throughout time myth has been one of the fundamental activities of the human heart as it seeks to contemplate and understand the mystery of reality, to find a path through the fabric of history as its tapestry is ever woven, a path that unveils meaning in the enigmas of life and gives sense and stability to the drama of existence. But especially, the activity of myth, of fantasy, is born of a primal wonder before the awesome miracle of being, and of the fundamental human activity which is play, and serves to keep this wonder and play alive always. In precisely this way it has been, and shall always be, a catalyst to enkindle and deepen the longing in the heart of each one of us for redemption-for a new and better world, a world where righteousness and happiness dwell, and all is freedom and purpose, unity and harmony, ecstatic delight and true adventure.
Such does Dawnbringer humbly seek, stepping into the flowing current of thought and imagination as it surges on through history, offering, in a narrative of proportions both intimate and epic, a glimpse of the light that shines upon us all, and of the conflict that resides at the center of every life, that the weak again may be strong and the child again may be king.
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