Category: Book Four
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Five Adventure Books
In the year of our Lord, 1193, a Spanish knight named Pero de Alava, was sent by Emperor Henry VI to oversee the keep at Capua, Italy. It was Pero’s first imperial commission, and it was dangerous. The Church objected to the emperor assigning his people to judicate affairs in…
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High And Low Fantasy
In November of 1193, despite Rome’s objections, the emperor assigned a Spanish caballero, Pero de Alava, to be the judicature of affairs in and around the Italian fortress guarding and taxing the bridge over the Volturno River in Capua. It was Pero’s first imperial commission. The Spaniard didn’t know it…
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My Qilin
While exploring ancient histories and mythologies, I decided I wanted to incorporate something a bit less European (in a sense) to The Crystal Crux tale when it came to the happenings in Eliade. Chinese lore maintained that the qilin were a supernatural beast with the body of a horse but…
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I Wish I Could Share …
“We are not alone in here.”A creature snarled and lashed out, scratching her arm.Gisele screamed at the top of her lungs as another crackle of lightning destroyed what was left of the gnarled old tree.– excerpt from The Crystal Crux : Shimmer That, of course, is the last thing readers…
Author Allen M Werner 