Dragon Sun

The Dragonlords of Dumnonia #2

by Linda A. Malcor

Shashtah thinks he has everything figured out. To prevent his new Dragon, the Prophetess of Tphah, from dying the way his first Dragon, the Phrophetess of Tkai had, he simply has to go through the secret ritual at the Anvil that the Dragonriders of Dumnonia call "The Training." But the new Dragonlord, Kashon, has no experience in training a normal Pair let alone such an unusual one as Shashtah and Tphah. Plus Kashon's magic is not that of the Dumnonians; he wields the power of the Wizards of Corin. Designed by his god to be a conduit for magic, Shashtah quickly finds wizards and deities channeling a confusing array of power through him that his young Prophetess is unable to help him control. That suits the Dark One just fine. He lurks inside the shadows of Mount Cinnamar, waiting for the perfect time to add that one last bit of magic to the mix that will forge Shashtah into the most destructive weapon Centuria has ever The Dragon Sun.

321 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 19, 2016

About the author

Born Linda A. Peterson, Dr. Malcor is a free-lance writer and teacher. She holds a Ph.D. from UCLA in Folklore and Mythology with an emphasis in Medieval Studies and Indo-European Comparative Mythology. Her most famous book, From Scythia to Camelot, co-authored with C. Scott Littleton of Occidental College, mentioned the connection between Lucius Artorius Castus and the Sarmatians of Britannia. Originally published in 1994, the text has gone into a Second Edition (2000) with an appendix devoted to Castus and has been translated into Russian, Hungarian, and Japanese, with an Italian translation in progress. In 1999 she was declared an Overseas Associate Member of Britain’s Late Antiquities Research Group. The 2004 Jerry Bruckheimer film King Arthur was inspired by her work, and she served as a researcher for the film. A founder of the electronic journal The Heroic Age, she has written numerous academic papers on the topic of Lucius Artorius Castus and the lore of the Scythians, Sarmatians and Alans, many presented at academic meetings in the USA as well as worldwide and published in peer-reviewed journals. Several academic conferences have been held in Italy and Croatia based on her studies of Castus, and her work has inspired the Scythia-Artorius Exhibit, a museum exhibition, which is being assembled in Milan, Italy on Castus and the peoples of Scythia with plans to eventually travel internationally. Her work on Castus continues, with additional conferences being planned for Russia as well as Croatia and Italy.

She lives in Orange County, California. She enjoys cooking, singing, war games, science fiction and fantasy.

Reviews

[Linda Malcor]

Dragon Sun is the second book in the Dragonlords of Dumnonia series. Shashtah and his Dragon, the Prophetess Tphah, go through the Training as the newest members of the century commanded by Dragonlord Kashon and his Dragon, Katrell. As with everything else in Shashtah's life, nothing turns out to be easy. His prophecy is still out of control and he has gone out of his way to complicate his life by trying to raise non-Dumnonian fosterlings in a desert even though Kashon has done his best to make it clear to him that Dragonriders don't have families for a reason: It's too hard. Shashtah has spent too much time as a caravaneer, though, to understand what his friend means. He takes his "family" to visit places he traveled in his youth, trying to show them the things he values in other cultures while failing to understand the one culture he truly needs to get a grasp on: his own.

[Linda Malcor]

Of all the Dragonlords books I've written, this is the one that most people tell me is their favorite. It gives a good overview of all the cultures on Centuria. Happy reading!