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A Beginning
In the half-light of early dawn, tightly clutching the blankets which cover her, Serhabaza continues to gnaw away at her knuckles. She is terrified. Exactly as predicted in countless waking dreams, her mother and father are about to set off to the front lines to give moral support to the army that has been locked in mortal combat with the Kurnish insurgents these past five years. Dreams from which they are destined never to return.
The very name Serhabaza means ‘enchantress’ but in a world where magic exists in many guises, she finds herself sorely lacking in that department. And yet, she could really do with some assistance from some white magic right now. All she can boast is her astral aura and a predilection for prescient visions – visions that seem unable to conjure up any future beyond the next battle. For her, after that, all is darkness!
The weather has been unseasonably mild for many weeks now, surely a situation that can only persist if her enemies have a sorcerer able to deploy supernatural forces to delay the onset of winter. If only she had an adept in white magic who could help someone with the power to unlock the curse that seems to be holding back the first snowfalls. Surely white magic will succeed over the darker kind; and a heavy fall of snow with halt the Kurn in their tracks and enable The Vales to regroup during the long winter ahead...
*****
A Beginning is the first book of the Magesty series - 10 books that span millennia and depict the conflict between warring nations and jealous nobles in a feudal society where witchcraft and magic abound. And later, when invading off-worlders from planet Earth attempt to colonise Serhabaza’s world, the powers of arcane magic go head-to-head against the high technology of the off-worlders . Later still, in the Serpentine Labyrinth trilogy, the last three books of the Magesty saga, this conflict extends to modern-day events in the UK and the USA, when biological weapons are deployed in a desperate attempt to combat the lore of magic.
Seeking the origin of the evil streak that is embedded in the off-worlders’ DNA, Magesty takes us back to Genesis, Chapter 4 when Cain, his people and their aggressive tendencies are banished to the land of Nod (Mesopotamia) via a portal manufactured by the Magi – the magicians of Serhabaza’s ancestors. It should not come as any surprise to the reader, therefore, to find that supernatural entities such as Satan, Lilith and Hecate (Dark Matta) are common to both cultures – the latter, better known as the Goddess of Witchcraft.
The very name Serhabaza means ‘enchantress’ but in a world where magic exists in many guises, she finds herself sorely lacking in that department. And yet, she could really do with some assistance from some white magic right now. All she can boast is her astral aura and a predilection for prescient visions – visions that seem unable to conjure up any future beyond the next battle. For her, after that, all is darkness!
The weather has been unseasonably mild for many weeks now, surely a situation that can only persist if her enemies have a sorcerer able to deploy supernatural forces to delay the onset of winter. If only she had an adept in white magic who could help someone with the power to unlock the curse that seems to be holding back the first snowfalls. Surely white magic will succeed over the darker kind; and a heavy fall of snow with halt the Kurn in their tracks and enable The Vales to regroup during the long winter ahead...
*****
A Beginning is the first book of the Magesty series - 10 books that span millennia and depict the conflict between warring nations and jealous nobles in a feudal society where witchcraft and magic abound. And later, when invading off-worlders from planet Earth attempt to colonise Serhabaza’s world, the powers of arcane magic go head-to-head against the high technology of the off-worlders . Later still, in the Serpentine Labyrinth trilogy, the last three books of the Magesty saga, this conflict extends to modern-day events in the UK and the USA, when biological weapons are deployed in a desperate attempt to combat the lore of magic.
Seeking the origin of the evil streak that is embedded in the off-worlders’ DNA, Magesty takes us back to Genesis, Chapter 4 when Cain, his people and their aggressive tendencies are banished to the land of Nod (Mesopotamia) via a portal manufactured by the Magi – the magicians of Serhabaza’s ancestors. It should not come as any surprise to the reader, therefore, to find that supernatural entities such as Satan, Lilith and Hecate (Dark Matta) are common to both cultures – the latter, better known as the Goddess of Witchcraft.
245 pages, Paperback
Published February 27, 2022
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