The Sorcerer's Destiny

The Sorcerer's Path #8

by Brock E. Deskins

Brutally purged of his demonic influence, Azerick continues the struggle of uniting the kingdom to face the coming of the Scions, ancient gods banished by the mortal races during the Great Revolution two thousand years ago. The fallen gods’ prison is crumbling, and Azerick is powerless to stop them from breaking free and enacting their cataclysmic vengeance upon the world.
The humans must ally with the other races in a final battle against impossible odds while their entire world crumbles to the ground and is trod beneath the feet of an unstoppable foe. How can they set aside their distrust of each other when they fear the very person trying to save them?

Genres: Fantasy, Magic, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Dragons, Demons

395 pages, ebook

First published November 21, 2013

About the author

Brock Deskins was born in a small town located in rural Oregon. At age twenty he joined the army and served as an M1A1 tank crewman, dental specialist, and computer analyst. While in the military he became an accomplished traveler, husband, and father of three wonderful children. Now out of the military he attends college to brush up on his skills as a computer analyst and gain new skills as a writer.

Update 2012: Received my degree in computer networking and devoting my full time and limited attention span to writing. Thanks to everyone who is making this dream a reality.

Reviews

[Lisa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Review for the entire series.

Absolutely loved and enjoyed reading this series. From the first book to the slightly underwhelming last novel, this series just pushed and pushed the envelope of an epic action-packed fantasy series.

Azerick is my ultimate anti-hero badass in a world of monsters and mayhem.

My Reasons Why
(1) Azerick is the most vengeful, despotic, and vicious protagonist ever.
There is literally no one who can stop him, except maybe the gods. With his demon and sorcery powers, whatever Azerick says goes.

Just look what he did to the Academy. Because they didn't believe that the Scion existed and would not train their mages based on Azerick's manual, he allowed the Scion creatures to eviscerate and destroy the weakest mages at the Academy, ,the helpless children, to teach the Academy mages a lesson.

He allowed all those kids to be killed just to prove a point.

Even when confronted with his hypocrisy, he still justified his mass murderers as accidental or necessary for its own good.

(2)Azerick is not any way a redeemable character.
Even with all the good that he actual do: saves ordinary people, married the kind and funny Lady Miranda, established an orphange for sick children, started the Orphange Academy for non-noble gifted kids, fought for the king, eradicate the Dark Mage syndicate, and destroys all those terrible monsters like the Scion we can't forget his savage and bloodthirsty past.

He kills too easily.

(3)Even the author agrees! Look how great of a mentor and father figure he became.
Ellyssa, :his spoiled and irritating apprentice who because of pride and power, did what she wanted when she wanted (like her adopted father), was kidnapped and abused, later becoming a mass murderer in a personal vendetta against all slavers.

Wolf,: the vagabond half elf who flouts societal norms as another thief and killer 'protecting' the woods as he sees it all as his own.

Daebian,:his natural son renegade whose unnatural intelligence, unnatural possessiveness towards his mother, and his father's indifference, causes him to lash out violently and mercilessly, inviting the seduction of a demon, and later betraying his allies.

The only two children who come out normal is his half-everything son Raijaun who is kind in spite of his father but looks like a monster repudiated by all who sees him and Sandy, the orphaned sand dragon who is later controlled by the Scion.

Each of his children ( except for Raijaun) learn and project the worst parts of Azerick's character, but Daebian and Ellyssa the most: selfishness.

Stuff I really didn't like
The huge bag of baddies:I mean every fantasy villain every written was represented in this book. Here is just a few of the many: the thieves, zombies, vampires, murderers, dark mages, pirates, golems, slave traders, psylings, assassins, the church, demons, the world conquering gods, the dragons, etc etc. OP characters have there place but it was almost unreal how skilled he is projected to be.

The absolutely horrid book covers: I could barely read the title of any of the books, the art was juvenile and I couldn't tell you now which book I read just based on the cover. I know this was probably a self-published series, which was great and all, but the book covers made it difficult to keep track of the story.

Azerick, was born to luxury, his father a wealthy ship merchant who was later betrayed and killed by those trying to overthrow the king. Azerick had to grow up fast, becoming a thief and later a brutal murderer in vengeance to those he perceives wronged him and his new adopted thief family. While pickpocketting a mage, he learns that he has magical abilities and is enrolled into the academy. After learning he is in fact a rare sorcerer, he escapes the school after accidentally killing a fellow student during a mage duel.

Thinking to return to the sea as a ship mage on a merchant ship, Azerick and his friends become enslaved by psylings, a race of telepathic creatures that force them to fight to death against creatures. There Azerick finds love and marries a fellow slave Delinda. Tragedy strikes, when in an effort to control Azerick, Delinda and his unborn child are killed. In typical Azerick fashion, Azerick strikes back, killing his psyling master, Lord Xornon, and destroying the psyling city and all its habitat, committing genocide. He and his merry band of fellow ship mates then find solace in an isolated town savaged by a dragon. He kills the dragon, taking the dragon's spoils and meets dwarves who teach him about runecraft. He later returns to North Haven adopts a girl, Ellyssa as his mage apprentice and accidentally opens an orphanage and later accidentally a mage academy for the poor and non-noble children with mage abilities. He marries the Lady Miranda and she becomes pregnant with Daebian, his half-demon son.

Azerick learns of the plot to locate the Dundalor's armor, reputed to instill in the wearer the magical ability of ultimate protection and a viable threat to the current king, King Jarvin 's throne, which had caused the death of his father and his childhood misery. Azerick of course, with another merry band of adventurers steals the Dandalor's armor from General Baneford, a surrogate of the saboteurs, and buried it deep into the ground. He seeks out and kills the Dark Mages insurgents, destroying their dark tower and wreaking mayhem on the innocent city bystanders.

During his fight with the mages, he become possessed by a evil demon, but overcomes and controls the demons powers instead. The saboteurs stage another coup with the churches backing, and now a civil war erupts with Azerick called in for assistance. There is though another bigger threat, a being that can raise the dead and create chimera monsters of humans and animals, which the kingdom must overcome. Ellyssa, his spoiled apprentice is kidnapped and brutally enslaved by the Sumara empire. Azerick saves her but is killed and sent down to hell with his demon.

For the next five years Azerick tries back to his wife Lady Miranda and his quickly developing child Daebian, Ellyssa goes on a deadly crusade killing slavers and hunted by the Mage Academy. Azerick returns to his home but now the mission from the ultra gods, the Scions the deadly brings who once enslaved of all kinds will return to destroy everything and everyone and Azerick must unite all the races to save the world.

Using his second son, Raijaun, a special child born from a dying guardian with unimaginable powers they act as stalwarts of the good gods, using brutal and often mercenary tactics to unite the races against the Scion. Daebian, his rebelling older son, stabs Azerick with a power stealing knife, steals his demon, becomes a pirate and later a pawn of the Scion. Battle ensues, death of millions of people, but it is Daebian, the chaos maker who help destroys the Scions, with the nifty help of Azerick's stolen demon.

[Seeker · Rating 1 out of 5]

what a horrible end!!!

That Daebian character was completely disgusting. He didn't deserve to have that kind of role in the war. The only reason I continued reading was to see how horrible he would be crushed and humiliated by his father, and in the end he was the hero and even got the girl!
And the main character left his beloved and judging from the last scene of the story I think he got crazy a little.
And the bad guys didn't even die in the end, just got exiled, and we are at the beginning of the story again.
seriously! the worst ending of a book I've ever experienced in my life.I think the writer just wrote the worst ending he could imagine.

[Alex Rider · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved the series, but I'm probably gonna be depressed for a couple of months from the ending of this book...

[Frazer · Rating 3 out of 5]

Terrible ending

Terrible ending to a great first 9/10 tenths of a story. Unfortunate that it ended in the poor way it did.

[Joe · Rating 1 out of 5]

I was thoroughly entertained with this series from the beginning. That being said the way he ended it was just bad. I have so many questions about characters that he completely forgot about. I wish he would have taken the time to wrap this up properly.

[Tom · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good end to the series

[Ryan R · Rating 2 out of 5]

I had to stop reading. 8 books into a series, and I am forced to stop reading because the level of writing has gone down hill so much :( I admit that I am invested in the story. Heavily invested in fact. However the author insists on focusing a large portion of both this book and the last on a character that I really can't stand. Why the author decided to have Daebian play such a significant role is beyond me. But what's worse is how awful he is as a character. And I don't mean evil. Although he probably is. I mean that he is simply so annoyingly superior. And always seems to get his way. Also the way everyone simply allows this, even his father, is even worse. Quitting a series on the last book is incredibly difficult. But WOW! The author really made a terrible decision when writing this book.

[Ananthatejas Raghavan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Am ok ending for the series

Initially I thought the platter of all the magical beings being added to the series was just prolonging the story but I guess it did work out well overall. The rest of the books were really entertaining and I would have rated this higher if not for the abrupt move of the storyline of Debian. The ending kind of fell flat overall. But nonetheless an entertaining series.

[Karla Schneider · Rating 5 out of 5]

This last book has everything closed up nicely and was inclusive of all elements in far greater satisfaction that how the Lord of the Rings series ended. Unfortunately there were also a dozen grammar mistakes. Either this last book had no editor, or none of the books had an editor and this book was just so rushed that nobody proof read it.

[Daniel Meinhardt · Rating 5 out of 5]

The whole series has been a good read. The climax to the ending was also really good, but the ending just left me with so many questions. All these things happen right at the end and there’s no closure. It feels like it’s missing another chapter that’s how much is missing from completing the remaining characters stories.

[STuRoK · Rating 2 out of 5]

Simping

These books are pretty good, but the simp feminism gets worse with each book. I try to ignore it but it grates on my nerves.
The author makes the females "equal" but gives them total special treatment and makes them always better, smarter, amazing!, strong!, but then when survival comes, all the women get to flee without fighting. Typical.

[Henry Northcott · Rating 5 out of 5]

Finality

It's been fun binge reading over five days. Two sleepless nights, and much mirth and excitement from the whole epic . It could do with a further novella by way of epilogue but its still a five star epic story

[Dieg · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's just too much to comment. But I feel like the end of the book reflects best the journey...
However for at least one week I will absolutely stick to romance books, to read a max of happy endings!

[Dan · Rating 2 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this series, Liked the main character and development and really like the wolrd this is set in...that said I did not care for the direction the last two book have taken and think the ending is pretty bad and weak.

There some things that just don't make sense and fail hard logic wise in the conclusion of this series.

All in all a great series with a truly horrible ending.

EDIT: 11/11/2018

Looks like there is a second series continuing on where this first one left off.

Rise of the Order: A Sorcerer's Path novel (The Sorcerer's Rebirth Book 1)

[Bob · Rating 1 out of 5]

Then ending was a little weak and disappointing and to be honest I was happy to have the series finally end.

[Milan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ah this series... Had potential but ended so unsatisfactory.