The Mule's Dream (War of the Divinics)

A ne’er-do-well gets caught up in a war between elemental mages.Beam’s parents died when he was a young child. His father, a Vaemysh ambassador, was executed by his own people for crimes against the tribe. His mother, a Parhronii, died as a result of her grief. After their deaths, he was passed from family member to family member until there was no one left willing to bear the stigma of raising a half-bred child. Desperate to rid his family of the shame, his uncle abandons him in Parhron City in the middle of the night, tying Beam to a horse hitch outside a run-down priory. He's discovered in the morning light by Brother Dael, patriarch of the priory, who takes Beam in without question and raises him to adulthood.Beam is burdened with a deep and ever growing anger over the circumstance of his parents' deaths and his eventual rejection by his extended family. As an adult, he flees the priory and makes his way to the Neutral Outerlands, a wild, ungoverned frontier territory. There he earns his way as a smuggler, thief, and blade-for-hire, turning whatever foul tricks line his purse with the most gold. He is a man unto himself, beholden to no others, taking whatever prizes he feels he deserves for the angusih of a murdered childhood and a bastardized life.Several years after leaving the priory, he’s tracked down by a courier bearing a package from his long dead mother. Inside, he finds a map leading him hundreds of miles south to the remote burial grounds of the Vaemysh savages hidden deep in the southern Scrubs of Calevia. There, in a dank crypt, he discovers a rare red crystal—a gem carved in the shape of a sensuous, lidded eye. He believes this artifact will finally make him rich and grant him the life of luxury and lavish indulgence he so deserves. Instead, the crystal unlocks ancient memories in him, memories of a mystic warrior and a grand quest that has lain unfulfilled for centuries.Contact: [email protected]

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