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    Knight: Tracks of Darkness
    Knight: Tracks of Darkness
    Knight: Tracks of Darkness
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    Knight: Tracks of Darkness

    By Dave Devine

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    "The King desired adventure; I could give it to him. He wanted to vanquish imaginary foes in his sleep. That was possible. He wanted to visit the land of Nür, where gods were born. I would take him there. In retrospect, I was merely granting the king’s own wishes and helping him realize his greatest dream: to live in an imaginary world where there was constantly something interesting to do, where there was always something grandiose to achieve, where there was always a cause to uphold, and people who needed to be saved."

    -Mad Glare, Author of the World's Troubles

    (K:TOD is a reference book for Fall of the Minotaur King, The Zombie Princess and upcoming DOOMED TO PREVAIL books by Dave Devine.)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDave Devine
    Release dateAug 30, 2012
    ISBN9781476059341
    Knight: Tracks of Darkness
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    Dave Devine

    Thanks for swinging by my Smashwords page! Have a look at my Amazon page here: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00FKOXJ5E Check out a map of EOS/NUR here: http://aroachapproach.blogspot.com/2012/03/map-of-eosnur.html And please feel free to email Dave Devine at djrobles@gmail.com :)

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      Knight - Dave Devine

      Knight: Tracks of Darkness

      By Dave Devine

      Copyright 2012

      Smashwords Edition

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      Table of Contents

      The Cast

      Foreword: Day 4

      An Essay by Mad Glare

      Knight: Tracks of Darkness

      Three Interpretations

      An Essay by Ana Thema

      The Cast

      Knight: Tracks of Darkness

      The King: The book never tells us who the King was; neither does it hint at his name. In fact, the book is just a series of paintings on each page. My guess is that the king was one of the elder rulers pre-dating the first Lucient emperors. Ana Thema may know more about him. This king is bitten in a nightmare by a terrible spider and he has less than thirty days to live.

      The Vizier: A powerful sorcerer. He is a close friend and confidante of the king. He believes that there is a way that the curse can be lifted and so, the king summons four great heroes and villains of their time to embark on a quest into the king’s own nightmares.

      Mav’ric the Riverblade: The Hero of his age. His fabled sword is like water and it can completely ignore an opponent’s armor. Mav’ric is the first person to respond to the King’s request for aid.

      Horace the Desert Arrow: An outlaw and a vagrant. He was once a great general in the king’s army and he has agreed to aid the king he once served.

      Kalaitos: A wicked grey elf; the last of his kind. He wields a blade called Swazinder, which means the grace accorded to man. The king is reluctant to let this elf into the realm of his dreams, but the vizier insists that the quest cannot succeed without his aid.

      Master On Darai: A faceless man, twisted and evil. His blurry sword exists in two worlds and it can sweep a man entirely from the memory of existence. If Master On Darai can cooperate with the others, he can destroy the spider utterly and save the king. But why would he want to do that?

      Jurel Forlorn: Dream born, which means he has never existed in the waking world. In some paintings, he is a man guiding the companions throughout Nür. And in other paintings, he is something else. I believe he is a Were-lion, and I hope this book is just that: an old children’s tale.

      Foreword:

      An excerpt from Fall of the Minotaur King

      Day 4

      Well, there was a king, I began. I never figured out his name. And the king had a vizier at court that helped him rule. She nodded her head. I may have figured out who the heroes in the story were, but I was unsure. The author (painter, rather) mixed his tale with both fictional and historical characters.

      One night, the king had an awful nightmare. He was attacked by a terrible spider. I pointed at the first painting of a monstrosity veiled in shadow with red eyes, some of them blinking. It towered over the king, casting a long shadow over his entire realm. The sheer scale of that monster next to the king was the source of many sleepless nights for me. When the king awoke, he discovered a number written on his hand. It was the number twenty-eight. The next day the number changed to twenty-seven.

      So the king had less than one month to live. This explained why the numbering in the book began with page twenty-eight and ended with one day remaining ere the king’s doom.

      The king summoned his vizier who devised a plan: let us send four of the greatest heroes of our age into the realm of your dreams in order to slay the spider and lift the curse.

      Very good, Andre, my strange visitor said. Now who were the heroes that went into the king’s dreams?

      I turned to page twenty-five. There were four men walking toward the king’s throne as the king and the vizier hailed them, greeting them warmly. I pointed to the man in blue silks slashed with white, in whose confidence, wore no armor. Mav’ric the Riverblade? I pretended to guess, but the man had to be Mav’ric. He was the hero of countless stories, spanning history and legend. This should not have been an educated guess.

      The man standing next to Mav’ric stood head and shoulders above the others. He wore a hood that shrouded his face and animal skins stitched together over baggy brown pants and boots made of stiff wrapped cloth. He was armed with a long bow and two quivers—one over his shoulder and another at his side. Horace of Aredea.

      The third man was not a man, but an elf. He wore a thin suit of form-fitting jet black armor engraved with silver spells etched into its make. He wore a perpetual scowl on his face. His eyes were burning with a hot white light and a long thin sword was sheathed in the void over his shoulder. "That is Kalaitos, a fictitious villain. His sword is called Swazinder which means the grace accorded to man. It rests in the void where it draws its unholy power."

      Your time here in the tower has not gone entirely to waste, she replied, impressed. "And what about the fourth man? Why is his

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