Book One
Shadow of Death
An orphan named Roscoe Kellen follows a dream east — and learns what it costs to answer a calling.
Coming soon
The series
Three books. One world.
Book Two
The Times of Darkness
The story continues where the shadow falls longest.
In progress
Book Three
Rebirth
What ends in darkness does not always end.
Planned
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Roscoe Kellen is nineteen, an orphan wintering in a town that is home only by default. Then the dream comes — a blue-black crystal on a pedestal, voices, a single word that is a place — and he leaves before dawn without saying goodbye.
East across Talie: taverns and mountain passes, a king in a stone castle on an island, an old mine that has been waiting a very long time. A grim, close-told fantasy about what a calling asks — and what it takes.
The faces
Characters of Talie
Roscoe Kellen
The one the dream called
Mira
Barmaid
Jozan
Cleric of Palor
Arial
Avatar of Magic
Tranis
Avatar of Planes
Varen
Paladin of Isthar
The places
The world itself
Outlook Castle
The welcome on the water
Yan Forest
The wood that lights from within
The Tan Mines
Five torches down
The Unicorn Shadow
A Talie tavern
The Hall of Heroes
To be remembered forever
Aleth's Coast
The cottage at the cloud's foot
Hear the world
Songs of Talie
Original music from the world of the books — tavern firesides, glowing forests, deep mines, halls of heroes. Every track maps to a real place or face in the series.
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