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    Ars Magna: Talisman
    Ars Magna: Talisman
    Ars Magna: Talisman
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    Ars Magna: Talisman

    By Matthew Cavazos

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    An emerald dragon and a stone golem. These are not the companions young Sheila Torrance expects to make at the beginning of her journey in the sprawling Australian metropolis of Pacific City, yet as she finds her life at risk from the machinations of the manipulative Christmas family and their loyal henchmen, the Texan shaman, Tex Arkana, and his leather suited accomplice, Bryce, Sheila must learn how to best understand the mystery of the tiny statuettes in order to rescue her young cousin from the terror of the Fenris Wolf!

    Set within the Artifice Comics shared universe, Ars Magna: Talisman is recommended for fans of Harry Potter, Pokémon, and classical mythology, and represents a new era for speculative shared universe fiction.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArtifice Comics
    Release dateAug 6, 2016
    ISBN9781370715640
    Ars Magna: Talisman
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    Matthew Cavazos

    Like a voice crying out in the wilderness, Matthew Cavazos is a singular talent blending aspects of fairy life with the attentiveness of an eye for contemporary detail. Heir to the graces of the magic realism genre, Cavazos's use of language is often unsettling and striking, his talent for the voices of everyday people a gift that breathes life into unusual and fantastical settings.

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      Ars Magna - Matthew Cavazos

      ARS MAGNA

      Talisman

      Matthew Cavazos

      The moral rights of Matthew Cavazos to be identified as the Author of this Work have been asserted in accordance with the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988.

      First published as Talisman: Sweet Dreams & Talisman: Seeing Things in Anthology 2 February 2003 by

      Artifice Comics

      Collected edition originally published by Artifice Comics 2016

      This edition published by smashwords

      ISBN 9781370715640

      Editor-in-Chief Jason S. Kenney

      Cover image from Sieben Laster – Luxuria by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

      Ars Magna: Talisman © Matthew Cavazos 2003 – 2016

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used factiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of the publisher. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.

      This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

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      Ars Magna: Talisman

      A beam of intense light parted the darkness from the forest clearing and struck the invincible hide of the rock creature. A hush came over the battleground as the metallic insect towered over the prone form of the near human creature. The insect’s gleaming pinchers clicked and clacked about their target, ready to bury themselves deep inside the rocky hide and rend the beast to chunks of hard earth and rubble.

      Suddenly a screech broke the silence and a fire of a queer green shade, encircled the fallen rock creature. All the while, beneath a blanket of storm clouds, soared the dragon in all of its fierce yet supernatural beauty.

      Two hooded figures emerged from the tree line surrounding the battlefield. The larger of the two, though dwarfed by the sheer size of the battling creatures, stepped out onto the scorched field and commanded the creatures to stop with a simple hand gesture.

      A deep male voice issued from beyond the hood of the larger figure, Richmond, what was wrong with that battle?

      The much smaller figure spoke with

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