The War of First Light

Beneath the twin moons of Aelaria, Amara Silversong has grown up believing her people’s age of peace, beauty, and knowledge will endure forever.

As a young apprentice studying the heavens under the brilliant scholar Verraku, Amara expects her future to be shaped by discovery. But when subtle disturbances begin appearing among the stars, curiosity gives way to unease. Ancient forces stir beyond Aelaria’s understanding, and Verraku’s relentless pursuit of knowledge draws him—and those who trust him—ever closer to something that should have remained untouched.

As the foundations of their seemingly perfect civilization begin to fracture, Amara must choose between the mentor she loves, the friends who refuse to abandon her, and the growing certainty that knowledge alone cannot save them.

Beneath the Twin Moons is the first book in The War of First Light, a mythic fantasy saga of friendship, sacrifice, ancient civilizations, and the hope that endures when even the brightest age begins to fall.

In the wake of Aelaria’s fall, its surviving people stand beneath unfamiliar skies, scattered far from the world they once called home.

But exile has not placed them beyond the reach of Zharu’un.

As signs of his corruption begin to surface across the mortal world, Amara Silversong, Ornasi, Darkhan, Nerun, and the remaining Aelari realize that survival alone will not be enough. Their numbers are too few, their strength too diminished, and the darkness before them too vast to face alone.

Their only hope lies among peoples who have no reason to trust them.

Across ancient forests, mountain halls, northern clans, and proud orcish lands, the Aelari must seek alliances with civilizations divided by old rivalries and shaped by traditions wholly unlike their own. Among them rise champions whose choices may determine whether those scattered peoples stand together—or fall separately.

For Amara, the journey is also one of grief, change, and the difficult discovery that preserving the light of Aelaria does not mean rebuilding the world exactly as it was.

The Gathering of Scattered Light, Book Two of The War of First Light, is a story of unlikely alliances, ancient cultures, friendship, sacrifice, and the gathering of hope against a darkness no single people can overcome alone.

The war that began beneath the Twin Moons has become a struggle for the fate of the world.

As Zharu’un’s darkness spreads across the realms, the fragile alliance forged against him is tested by old wounds, ancient rivalries, and ambitions that cannot be contained. While armies gather for the final confrontation, the darkness finds new champions of its own, turning pride, grief, and hunger for power against those who once stood together.

Far from the battlefields, Ornasi undertakes a perilous journey across the deepest reaches of creation. To oppose Zharu’un, he must gather the Twelve Primal Orbs, each bound to a fundamental power of the world. The path will carry him through lands where even the laws of creation have begun to fail, and every step draws him closer to a burden no mortal should bear.

Meanwhile, the peoples of the world fight not merely to win, but to survive long enough for Ornasi to return.

Amara Silversong stands at the heart of a gathering whose strength may yet be undone by fear and misunderstanding. Velorian faces a darkness that reaches closer to home than he ever imagined. The orcs of Gor-Durath are divided by a struggle between the wisdom of their ancestors and the hunger of a new generation. And across the world, sacrifices are made in the hope that something worthy of the dawn might survive.

At the end of the road waits Zharu’un.

And when Ornasi finally returns, the last battle will demand more than victory.

It will demand a sacrifice that changes the world forever.