Awakener — J.C. Staudt

Magic fades. Darkness rises.

Darion Ulther and his family have carved out a simple life for themselves in the untamed hinterlands of a wild realm, far from lords and kingdoms and warfare. After destroying the last existing record of a powerful spell capable of crippling magic itself, they assumed they were safe from the machinations of Dathrond's power-hungry ruler.

They were wrong.

A new threat has emerged in the east, and with it a startling shift in the symmetry between magic and nature. When tragedy strikes, Darion and his loved ones will set out on an adventure to restore balance to the realms â€" and, if they are fortunate, to awaken the Mage Song once more, for good and all.