SkyStones 1 - Winter Falls [the SkyStone Chronicles]

This “SkyStones” novella is part of “the SkyStone Chronicles” and is set on a world called Arah and tells of the power struggles between the different races living there.

Light Elves (and their descendants Snow Elves and Desert Elves), Dark Elves (Light Elves twisted by dark magic), Dwarves and Humans (including Wild Men and Snow Men tribes) fight for power and rule while SkyStones imbue magic on those who wield them.

The SkyStones (eight different stones with different power sets) were a gift (or a curse, depending on who you ask) from the SkyGod, who brought them to Arah in a hail of meteorites descending from the sky.

Ever since the SkyStones came into the lives of the inhabitants of Arah, there has been war and strife for possession of the stones, for rule and for power.

Stannon Dark Elve, once holder of the SkyStone of energy & lighting, his source of power, lost the war almost two hundred years ago. When his purple SkyStone was stolen from him, his conquest of the main lands came to a grinding halt and he had to retreat back to the Burning Isles, a place he took away from the Snow Elves long ago.

But he is still bent on conquering it all. He sets some new plans in motion to aid him in an eventual conquest. He sends an army against the Humans, and he himself goes on a secret mission that should help him get back to eventual glory and rule.

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