The best stories, they say, are those where the hero is flawed, human. In the City of Ages saga, there is no perfection. Heroes grow angry and bitter and impatient. Enemies are evil, but they see themselves as saviors to the generations. Worlds crumble and are reborn, time is destabilized and life itself becomes a commodity to be purchased and lost. The heroes become disillusioned with their journeys and question - as real heroes do - whether or not they're doing the right thing.
Shamar du Lean - As the story unfolds, Shamar is apprenticed as a weaver, and while he knows he carries abilities outside the norm he refuses to accept them. Instead he chooses the typical ambitions of an entrepreneur. An encounter in a wooded glen leads him pell-mell into a snowballing series of wonders and horrors, a far cry from pulling linen threads through a loom - or is it?
The City of Ages - The capital city of the realm, this massive walled fortress sits at a critical point between a broad, high plain and the steep cliffs that open to the Broadmoor Sea.
