Douglas van Dyke

eBook, ePUB

Daughter of the Legend: Storm-Mage Chronicles #2 (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

Thomena's father cared enough to send her to the best guild of arcane sciences. At age sixteen, with her accomplishment at reaching a journeyman status, she decides to return across the sea to the country that she dimly recalls as her birthplace. She seeks to fill the emptiness in her heart where her father should have been in all those years of growing into a woman and becoming accomplished in the field of magic.
The young mage must venture far from civilized lands in her search. Men whisper her father's nickname with equal parts respect and fear. When she finds him, she discovers the rough nature that had kept him alive for years on the edge of untamed wilderness. At the same time, there is a growing danger seeping out of the nearby jungle. Thomena witnesses how deadly a land could be where the human population is outnumbered by restless monsters. How will her magic fare against creatures who tower over twice her height?

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Autor

Douglas was born on Nov 28th, 1971 . He got to live many different places while growing up, courtesy of the assignments the US Army offered to his father. Too quiet and too shy for too long, there was always dreams of other worlds and places...and the desire to write about them.

He got into fantasy role-playing games in his mid-teens. The first such games played on a computer were offered by a Commodore 64. Often Douglas and his brother would create their own tabletop fantasy games and rules as well, all using very basic 6-sided die. Eventually, they also got into Dungeons and Dragons*. As MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) appeared, he tried a hand at several of them and made several new friends across the internet. To this day he has friends whom he meets in tabletop role-playing games, as well as online adventures. Many of his characters evolved in games, and each developed their own personality.

Inheritance of a Sword and a Path is the second book he has written, though the first published. It starts The Earthrin Stones trilogy, set in the fantasy world of Dhea Loral...a world he created for tabletop role-playing. The Widow Brigade is set in the same world, but a different locale and characters. While The Earthrin Stones trilogy servers as a good overall introduction to Dhea Loral, The Widow Brigade is focused on the dwarf widows of Tok-Maurron and their struggles. Douglas continues to write novels and think up short stories, while pondering the changing world of print vs ebooks.

Douglas lives with his wife and two young autistic children in Minnesota. He works in health care, serving people's healthcare needs in imaging. When most people see him, he is wearing scrubs.

FUN FACTS:

Most influential authors: R.A. Salvatore, Ed Greenwood, Joel Rosenberg, Terry Brooks

Favorite meal: Sausage and pepperoni pizza, with a Pepsi

Favorite role-playing class: Rangers lead the way

Hobbies: Online fantasy games, collecting swords, local Pathfinder games (Paizo)

Graduated high school at age 16, then faced resistance from the state of Wisconsin because they felt no one under 18 should hold a full-time job.

Lived on an army base in Germany for 3 years.

Most loved RPG character endured a long campaign in which he lost twelve horses out from under him and more magical weapons destroyed than he could count. The Dungeon Master finally let him e...

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Douglas Van Dyke, Jr
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798215382806
• Artikelnr.: 74353876