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    The Pathfinder Of Magic Part I
    The Pathfinder Of Magic Part I
    The Pathfinder Of Magic Part I
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    The Pathfinder Of Magic Part I

    By Anders Falestal

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    Andy is one of The Forbidden and he’s being hunted by Representatives of the Orden. A few of the hunters wants him captured alive, the rest wants him dead.
    Children with the forbidden magic like Andy, gets executed or sent to slavery by the Orden as soon as they show signs of the feared magic.
    How the Orden managed to let Andy slip through their fingers is a mistake that Erax, an elemental, is set to correct. He was after all the one who was supposed to have captured him ten years ago.
    The thrilling joy of the hunt grows with each passing breath as he closes in on his prey...

    The magic in the world of the Living is unbalanced. The ever growing power of the Magicians orden and its fight against blackmagic has awakened the source.
    The Magicians orden, also referred to as the Orden by magic users, have ruled the lands with the ruthless and cunning hand of Overlord Murar.
    The four Darkmagicians have formed an alliance with the elves in order to survive against the Orden, but merely surviving is not the goal. They want to win and for that they also need the boy, Andy.
    In past ages, troubled by great wars between Magicians of man and the different tribes of elf, malad, ohvi and kima, a Pathfinder has been born to correct any imbalance in the magic. There are those who wonder which came first; the war or the Pathfinder.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnders Falestal
    Release dateApr 6, 2012
    ISBN9781476003252
    The Pathfinder Of Magic Part I
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    Anders Falestal

    Hi everyone. I ́m a storytelling "young" man who finally got my act together to write the stories that I ́ve harboured for so long. I have already started on three different stories from epic fantasy to urban fantasy. My first story was The Pathfinder. I haven ́t finished it yet:) Besides being a nightowl and a father I ́m also a guitarteacher, teaching at a music college in sweden. I am a former student at MI (GIT) in L.A and I really like to shredd on my guitar for inspiration. I hope that you ́ll enjoy reading my books as much as I do writing them:)

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      The Pathfinder Of Magic Part I - Anders Falestal

      THE PATHFINDER OF MAGIC

      PART I

      The Hunt

      By

      Anders Falestal

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

      * * * * *

      The Pathfinder Of Magic

      Copyright © 2012 by Anders Falestal

      Thank you for purchasing this eBook.

      This ebook is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons, living or dead, or places and events is purely coincidental. The characters are productions of the author’s imagination and used fictitiously.

      I would like to write my thanks to my family and friends who helped me edit and revise this story. Also, a special thank you, to my loving Ulrica who took on the heavier load of managing being a mom to our 2year old son and doing everything else in our household while I was writing. Juggling a fulltime job as a musicteacher with a house, kid and a dog and writing at the same time has been hard but somehow we did manage it. Thank you for reading my ebook. I hope you´ll enjoy reading it as much as I had writing it

      CONTENTS

      Prologue

      Chapter I The Hunt

      Chapter II The Dream

      Chapter III The Elf

      Chapter IV An Ally

      Chapter V Kreah

      Chapter VI The triumph of the Sohr

      Chapter VII A trace of blackmagic

      Chapter VIII An irritating elf

      Chapter IX Capture or captured

      Chapter X A dark meeting

      Chapter XI The Lord of the fortress

      Preview Part II Chapter XII Zera and Hamis

      PROLOGUE

      Andy doesn’t know how long he has been running. He only knows that he dare not stop for a rest. The only thing that helps him to continue running is his own mantra. A constant phrase that drives him to continue though his strength is long gone; just a little bit further. Just a little bit further.

      He kept on running while the rain lashed against his chilled and stunned face. The rain and the cold wind made his skin so numb that neither the hands nor feet felt the damp chill that spread and penetrated deep into his body. He must find a shelter from the wind and rain. Black spots were beginning to appear in his vision that grew bigger and bigger. A little longer and he would be running around blindly only to pass out from exhaustion. The steady clatter of rain began to draw itself away to become a distant hum in the background. The only sounds that he was aware of, was his own pulse pounding in his head and the hissing sound from his breathing.

      Andy took off from the dirt road and followed a small stream where the water ran slowly towards the nearby valley.

      The stream was shallow enough for him to wade in, without the water reaching over the top of his worn boots. He was hoping that the pursuers would continue to hunt him in the belief that he still ran along the dirt road.

      He knew there was an Elemental among his pursuers. A Fire-Elemental that has the ability to control, create and mold fire after his own will.

      He had seen the Elemental from a hiding place in a barn where he took shelter during the night. The Elemental had threatened everyone in the village that he would burn it down if they did not point out Andy’s whereabouts. None of the people knew anything, no one knew, except an old man.

      When the old man saw the threatening Fire-Elemental make a sweeping gesture with a burning arm towards the gathered village people, he walked up in front and pointed towards Andy's direction. Andy saw how the flames danced around The Elemental's arm for a moment before they vanished. He did not stay to see the questioning that The Elemental had with the old man.

      The hunt was on and he ran like he’d never run before.

      * * * *

      Andy knew that he had used enough magic yesterday for the Magic Pillars to reveal his position for the Magicians Orden. He knew that they would come for him but he couldn’t just leave the people in the village without trying to help them.

      The people of the village were poor and hungry from starvation. He had walked over the ground that hadn’t provided any crop for the villagers. The drought and the heat had lasted a long time. All the water that remained in the shallow wells went to the people and the skinny and dehydrated animals were slaughtered one by one.

      He had gone down on his knees on the dry soil and felt what was missing. He had closed his eyes and seen with his mind's eye, an underground river a good distance away. It was far from the village's water wells and it would never find its way over here without help. He did something he hadn’t tried before or even knew he could. His breathing was deep and slow and all his energy was spent focusing on the water.

      When he felt that the time was right, he had sent out his energy towards the water like invisible threads. When the energy threads had met with the water he instinctively felt how he should proceed. He had sent out his magic along the energy threads to blend with the water. With the help of magic he then began to draw the water in his direction. The water had run unhindered towards him as he stood on his knees.

      When the water along with Andy's magic moistened the dry crops in the ground, they started to sprout and grow. He doesn’t know how long he had sat there on his knees concentrating on his task.

      When he finally opened his eyes, the land was full of vegetation and the smell of all the greenery spread across the arid countryside and the village.

      The villagers had been kind-hearted and generous. They had shared food and water even though they had so little. Many were sick and weak but they still lived on the hope. The hope for a future in the village they had created a home and the hope for an end to the terrible drought and famine.

      Andy had hurried away from the spot, hoping that no one had seen him sit there on his knees in the dry soil. But all this had happened yesterday and he had been seen. And today… today, he was being hunted.

      * * * *

      Andy belongs to the unfortunate small group of people that all other men and tribes refer to as The Forbidden.

      The Magicians orden has since its foundation had as its primary mission, to capture all people suspected of being one of The Forbidden.

      The Forbidden possesses a magic that is instinctive and natural. It is an innate magic that is not schooled and controlled and is therefore seen as a serious threat to all Magicians and the Magicians orden.

      Everyone born as one of The Forbidden is captured as children by the Orden and the majority gets executed immediately. The only exception is if they find that the magic within the child is too weak to be a threat.

      * * * *

      The fear of being captured gave Andy more stamina and more willpower than anything else. He had heard stories about what the Magicians Orden did with people like him and he himself had seen them kill his mother. He knew they were approaching and that the distance between them was decreasing. He had to hurry.

      A slippery stone lay just below the surface and the fall was unstoppable. He fell helplessly into the stream. The chilled body did not feel the cold water that surrounded him and he sat up quickly and got up on unsteady legs.

      By The Eternal! Help me escape from the Magicians orden. Don´t let them catch me. Why am I being punished for being one of The Forbidden? Andy cried to himself. Panic and despair spread throughout his body and he thought he heard distant voices getting closer.

      The first steps were unsteady but he urged himself on and refused to be distracted by the terrible images that he unintentionally created of torture and abuse. Dreadful horrors that he would face if they caught him.

      Chapter I

      The Hunt

      The sound of nervous drumming fingers filled the room. The man who sat opposite Overlord Murar stopped immediately when he realized that his bad habit was not appreciated. The sweat ran slowly down from his forehead and the man wiped his hand across his face.

      Nobody said anything. The man could not stand it any longer, he stood up and began to pace around in the room and his shoes clapped loudly when they hit the hard marble floor. Sit down Likel! The man stopped abruptly and looked at Overlord Murar. Sit down and sit absolutely still. I can not stay in the same room as you when you’re pacing up and down like that. I'm sorry My Lord, but we are so close. Erax the Fire-Elemental must obtain the boy. I have never had such a clear foreboding. The boy will open the gate to The Eternal unless we get hold of him. Overlord Murar looked at his nervous Seer. Of the three who remained, Likel was the best. It was not reassuring to see him as a nervous wreck when so much was at stake.

      We have fought the darkness before and won. The Four Darkmagicians will be unable to best us, even with the gate opened. Their alliance with those cursed elves has not given them anything, said Murar confidently. But my Lord ... the darkness that I fear is not that which already exists here among The Living. I fear the darkness that will come through the gate, Likel said nervously. There will not be any darkness coming from the gate… Murar roared loudly, … because we shall ensure that the boy never gets a chance to open it. Do you understand me Seer Likel? Yes, my Lord.

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