THE DANCE OF ALL BEINGS BOOK ONE - THE IVORY PICK
“History comes in a rush all at once. Dreams, whimsy, and rhyme cover this world and backwash into the blasted earth whose history and charmed lives will entwine with new thoughts and changes. Landmark fillers notch time across the face of this new world—cutouts and facades of mountains, canyons, forests, and coastlines.
“Then it comes.
“The will to live…”
Deemos the legendary half-troll fights across a foreign world to find the nexus of the crisis that is the Nalig-mare, a demon of Nightmare that rolls over the world raising an undead army from the genocide of that world’s magical creatures. Deemos comes close to a truth even the godlings struggle to keep hidden, and he is cast out of that world into the Natural of the Blasted Earth as a mutos-spirit taking refuge inside mundane men. Here the Nalig-mare, the demon Despair, continues its plague upon the world, and Deemos battles through many lifetimes to purge the world of this Nightmare. After a reckless battle with Despair through the streets of Chicagoland, Deemos settles into the form of Carl Barkett.
Carl Barkett, fourteen years old, spending his summer at scout camp, awakens to the reality of being a host for the legendary half-troll. Carl will not allow Deemos to carelessly run away with his life, and locks the troll away in his brain, losing any knowledge of a lifetime spent at war with Nightmare. Carl leaves his broken home life for the brighter realms of being a real hero, a real protector. Joining a local flokk of trolls, he will batter and bash his way across his local territory. Despair, however, sees the anger, the darkness within Carl and shows him what a terrible Black Knight he could become.
Will Carl be able to keep those most precious to him from being lost to darkness, or will he be able to overcome the demon Despair that would shadow the world in the eternal nighttime? Hope vs Despair – The White vs. Nightmare – as the magic of gods and the creatures of myth return to the Blasted Earth.
