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    The Riven Gate: Spells of Earth
    The Riven Gate: Spells of Earth
    The Riven Gate: Spells of Earth
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    The Riven Gate: Spells of Earth

    By Remi Black

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    Desora travels with Captain Brax, his guards, and the rangers to the palace of Horst. Lord Horst, a Dark Fae, rules the northern Wilding. Alliance with him offers the only chance to defeat the eldritch monster attacking innocent creatures of his forest.

     

    Yet more than the monster threatens them. Sorcery and magical predators lurk in the forest, waiting to snare them.

     

    Desora's elemental Earth is one of the few defenses against the monster. She struggles to discover greater depths to that power. Her broken memory still blocks her.

     

    Bloody fate balances death on one scale, destruction on the other. Will she survive her next battle against this monster?

     

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    The fantasy The Riven Gate is the second novella in the three-part series Spells of Earth, part of the greater Fae Mark'd World. The series began with The Wyrded Forest and concludes with The Mysts of Sorcery.

     

    If you like elemental power battling twisted sorcery and cold steel clearing paths through magical monsters, then you will love the adventures in The Riven Gate.

     

    Writer Remi Black has loved creating magical worlds since a teenager, when she read a much-battered paperback in the Witch World saga by Andre Norton, the Grand Mistress of Fantasy. She writes determined heroines and strong heroes, both with internal conflicts as dire as the sorcerers and monsters that confront them.

     

    Look for the Fae Mark'd Wizard series with Alstera, banished when she delved a little too closely into sorcery. First in that series is Weave a Wizardry Web.

     

    Remi's first series set in the Wilding is Spells of Air. The young wizard Orielle encounters the proud Dark Fae Lord Skull and Lady Bone as well as a pack of shifted wyre enslaved by a sorceress. The opening book in that trilogy is To Wield the Wind.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherM.A. Lee
    Release dateMar 25, 2022
    ISBN9798985871418
    The Riven Gate: Spells of Earth
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      The Riven Gate - Remi Black

      The Riven Gate

      Spells of Earth ~ 2

      In the

      Fae Mark’d World

      By

      Remi Black

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      Remi Black’s The Riven Gate

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      This book is a work of fiction. The names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the writer’s imagination or have been used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, actual events, locale or organizations is entirely coincidental. The author does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for third-party websites or their content.

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      Contents

      The Riven Gate

      Contents

      Remi Black’s Works

      ~ 1 ~ Motes of Souls ~

      ~ 2 ~ Earth and Iron ~

      ~ 3 ~ Potential in Earth

      ~ 4 ~ Jewels on the Wing

      ~ 5 ~ The Caves of Trantorr

      ~ 6 ~ A Queen’s Warning

      ~ 7 ~ Distant Explosions

      ~ 8 ~ A Costly Battle

      ~ 9 ~ The Wind Arch of Selinnia

      ~ 10 ~ Fate’s Bloody Balance

      ~ 11 ~ The Deep Power of Earth

      Thank You!

      Remi Black’s Fantasy

      Remi Black’s Works

      Fae Mark’d Wizard

      Wield a Wizardry Web

      Sing a Graveyard Song

      Dream a Deadly Dream

      Fae Mark’d World

      Spells of Air

      To Wield the Wind

      To Charm the Wind

      To Curse the Wyre

      Spells of Earth

      The Wyrded Forest

      The Riven Gate

      The Mysts of Sorcery

      ~ 1 ~ Motes of Souls ~

      W ho is dead?

      The funeral pyre flames leapt high, fueled by the wood stacked around and under the platform as well as elemental Fire. The Kyrgy Lord Horst had kindled Fire to give Honors to his killed knights and dames.

      The massive blaze created a steady illumination for those who surrounded it, honoring those who had died. The riders chanted grief and well-wishes for their fellows as motes of souls rose with the smoke and sparks.

      The rider who asked was newly returned to Horst’s forest palace. He pitched his inquiry to the knight nearest to Desora. She didn’t hear all of the knight’s response. At the end, he gestured to her. This one was there.

      So the rider came to her. Lady, at the stable they said that a pack of wyre attacked. I saw your horses with our lord’s. Did you and yours flee here, wyre on your tail, and they attacked my lord?

      She scowled. Like the other riders sworn to Horst, he had his lord’s aspect: the moon-silver hair and marble-white skin, now burnished by the flames. He’d served the Kyrgy a long time, for his eyebrows had become angled slashes and his teeth had sharpened. His oxblood leathers lacked any warmth from the pyre’s illumination. No, Rider, you think wrongly. When we arrived, the wyre had already attacked your lord. They’d already killed these knights and dames. They were dying, as much as they could while Horst’s mantle gave them life. Captain Brax and his men saved your Kyrgy lord.

      He scoffed.

      True, the other rider said. Our lord would not have died, but they could have held him captive. What, then, would we have done? How could we aid our lord?

      The man bent his head. My apologies, Lady. When he looked up, firelight danced in his obsidian eyes. I have seen you before, Lady, have I not? Several solstice turns ago. Wizard, aren’t you?

      No, Rider, I am a mere wielder of Earth, not a wizard. I did come here, six years past, to honor your lord. I live at the forest border between the Wilding and the Lowlands.

      You come from Mulgrim?

      That village is nearest my abode, she confirmed without agreeing.

      I do remember, Lady. You were once a wizard. You asked our lord permission to live near his Wilding. You came second to our lord. First you honored the Maorn of Bermarck. He waited to ensure that Desora knew her offence in visiting a Lucent Fae before the Dark Fae. Now, Lady, you will tell me what happened here.

      The wyre attacked Horst. She understood that the knight didn’t want to interrupt his fellow riders’ grieving. Yet why had he not asked the guards and rangers scattered around the bonfire? We came too late to save them, but we did drive the wyre away.

      Why did they attack?

      A question you must ask your lord, Desora snapped. She had her speculations. Without evidence, only a fool would share them with a knight loyal only to Horst. I am not privy to a wyre pack’s motivations.

      Recognizing her offense, he bowed. Truth. Again, my apologies, Lady. His gaze swiveled to the pyre. Who do we honor?

      I do not know their names. Of those guarding Lord Horst, I know only Ambrois and Guilbert survived.

      Five dead. They will be missed, he mused. Who are these others? Who are these who ride with you? Who is this Captain Brax?

      The knight’s use of ride did not mean only those who had sworn loyalty to his lord. She looked across the fire at Captain Brax, standing next to the Kyrgy lord.

      Brax and four of his men had come from Iscleft Citadel to find her. Wearing armor and leather, he looked ready to face any opponent. The flame’s light danced over his features, stalwart, resolved, blank of fear or worry or anger. What does he see in the flames? The past he claims we had together? Battles he claims we fought in the past? Others who died as they fought sorcerers and wyre?

      The men with armor are from Iscleft Citadel. The others are rangers, sworn to Maorn Harte.

      The knight gestured abruptly, sharp, profane, an obvious disdain for the Lucent Fae lord who ruled Bermarck.

      Another aspect he shared with his Kyrgy lord. Lucent and Kyrgy were not enemies, but they had enmity between them.

      Desora added, We have the same goal as Lord Horst: to rid this Wilding and the Lowlands of the sorcerer and his wyre as well as an eldritch monster, the like that I have never seen. Your lord said this monster attacked a deer herd bound to him.

      Aye. That was my mission, to discover this monster.

      It also attacked a flock of sheep. It killed on one night then returned the next to feed. We fought it.

      He turned fully

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